The login details of 73,000 users of a popular Finnish family-oriented discussion forum were stolen and posted online in the latest in a series of widespread hacking attacks, police said today. “We are aware of this incident and are investigating it as part of our wider investigation into the hacking attacks,” police investigator Timo Piiroinen…
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Texas realty firm’s renters’ details and payments dumped on Pastebin
Whoa. Maybe all companies should add “check Pastebin” to their daily security to-do list. A series of three data dumps from Carbajal Realty, Inc. in Waco, Texas reveals names, e-mail addresses, rental addresses, and payment info for approximately 625 renters. Here’s a redacted entry: payment_time=2010-07-07 05:57:04 rental_street=xxxx S. 10th Street amount=425.00 phone=214-998-xxxx contact_name=xxxxx_xxxx [email protected] payments_id=479…
Nexon Korea Corp’s Maple Story user database hacked; 13.2 million users told to change their passwords
Sung-won Shim reports for Reuters: … The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said in a statement Nexon reported to the commission late Friday afternoon that the company on Thursday discovered the leakage of personal data of its online game Maple Story‘s 13.2 million subscribers. […] KCC said it, jointly with police and computer security experts, is…
Hungarian Citizen Pleads Guilty to Hacking into Marriott Computers and Attempting to Extort Employment from the Company
A Hungarian citizen pleaded guilty today to intentionally causing damage by transmitting a malicious code to Marriott International Corporation computers and to threatening to reveal confidential information obtained from the company’s computers if Marriott did not offer him a job. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced the guilty…
Nl: Sinterklaas website hacked; 13,000 children affected
A hacker broke into the website of the Sinterklaas television news show and stole personal information about 13,000 children, including names, dates of birth and e-mail addresses, website Tweakers.net reported on Tuesday. NTR, the broadcasting company responsible for the programme, told Tweakers the information was contained in a part of the database where the security…
RockYou Proposed Settlement Would Leave Decision Standing
Remember the RockYou breach that was disclosed in December 2009? It still ranks as one of the 10 biggest breaches of all time in terms of number of records involved – 32 million users’ login credentials were involved. A lawsuit over the breach created a buzz last year when it did not get dismissed out of…