Online retailer Zappos has been hacked. Its CEO, Tony Hsieh, posted a copy of an email notification explaining the breach to all employees with a copy of the email notification sent to customers: The following email was sent to our employees today: Subject: Important – Security Dear Zappos Employees – Please set aside 20 minutes to carefully…
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Commentary: Morally bankrupt hacktivism
One of the blogs that I check every day for news on data breaches is an incredible resource called cyberwarnews.info. Lee’s blog has been the source of a number of recent entries in DataLossDB. Today, Lee posted a commentary on his blog where he writes, in part: So to all the hackers, CWN continues to ask for…
CoveritLive Warns Users of Possible Security Breach
While it isn’t indicated on its official site, the CoveritLive service has apparently been hacked and some personal user data may have been compromised, according to an email sent to subscribers this evening. The Live blogging technology is used by plenty of journalists, bloggers, and web sites as an easy way to blog live events….
UK: Namesco spits out phishy warning after credit card info leak
John Leyden reports: Namesco customers are angry over the domain name and hosting firm’s handling of a security breach that exposed their credit card details. A number of punters’ card details were leaked after hackers broke into Namesco’s systems. The web biz notified these customers as well as advising a larger number of its clients…
Saudi denies bank info breach by Israeli hackers (updated)
Tarek El-Tablawy reports: A top Saudi banking official on Tuesday denied an Israeli media report that hackers from Israel obtained credit card and bank account details of thousands of Saudi citizens, retaliating for an attack on Israeli accounts. Talaat Hafez, secretary-general of the media office in the kingdom’s banking authority, denied a report by the…
#OpFreePalestine continues to hack Israeli sites
Anti-Israeli cyberattacks continue. Although I have not noted all previous attacks on this blog, in Pastebin releases over the past two days, data from a number of Israeli web sites have been dumped: From TopLinks: 56 advertisers’ links with the admin/MD5 password for KRNEWS From Bar-Ilan University Geography and Environment Department: 36 names, e-mail addresses, and…