From their press release of today: MINNEAPOLIS — January 10, 2014 Target today announced updates on its continuing investigation into the recent data breach and its expected fourth quarter financial performance. As part of Target’s ongoing forensic investigation, it has been determined that certain guest information — separate from the payment card data previously disclosed —…
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Hackers use Amazon cloud to scrape mass number of LinkedIn member profiles
Dan Goodin reports: LinkedIn is suing a gang of hackers who used Amazon’s cloud computing service to circumvent security measures and copy data from hundreds of thousands of member profiles each day. Read more on Ars Technica.
The Straight Dope forum hacked – reset your passwords
The following notice was posted on The Straight Dope on January 7: Important Message about your Straight Dope Account and Password Our security team recently discovered that the Straight Dope message board forum was targeted and hacked. This resulted in the illegal acquisition of message board users’ information, namely usernames, email addresses, and Straight Dope…
AU: Schoolboy hacks Public Transport Victoria website
Adam Carey reports: Personal information about public transport users in Victoria has been exposed to potential identity theft because government authority Public Transport Victoria failed to secure its website. The security flaw in the PTV website was discovered by schoolboy Joshua Rogers, 16, who used a simple hacking technique to unearth a database containing the…
OpenSUSE forums hacked in ANOTHER vBulletin attack
Phil Muncaster reports: Linux distro openSUSE’s public forums have been compromised and defaced and tens of thousands of user email addresses exposed after a hacker exploited a zero day flaw in the underlying vBulletin software. OpenSUSE responded quickly to media reports about the breach on Tuesday by admitting the successful exploit had allowed the hacker…
Pointer: World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League Hacked, 175,333 Accounts Leaked (Updated)
Another report from CyberWarNews.info: Tonight a hacker using the handle @smitt3nz has announced another leak which this time is from the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League Website (http://www.wptapl.com/). […] The surprising part about this is the fact the an Australian government worker from the defence department has registered with the defence.gov.au email. Other email addresses used are whitehouse, IRS, us courts, Wichita…