Update: Yonhap News issued another story that puts the number at 350,000, but didn’t correct their original url, cited below. Good grief – yet another hack in South Korea affecting 35 million?! Yonhap News Agency reports: Epson Korea Co., the South Korean unit of Japan’s Seiko Epson Corp., said Saturday that its Web site has…
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Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say
Yesterday, I posted an item about how the co-owners of Chocolate Emporium reported that a former employee stole their entire business platform and customer database, and used Dropbox as part of the incident. Here’s a related item by Tim Greene: Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised…
Anonymous Hackers Release FBI Contractor’s Drone Data
Alastair Stevenson reports: The hacker collective Anonymous has released a fresh batch of data taken from Vanguard Defense Industries, a Pentagon and FBI contractor. […] Anonymous later said the e-mails belong to the contractor’s senior vice president, Richard T. Garcia, and contained information regarding “internal meeting notes and contracts, schematics, non-disclosure agreements, personal information about…
BART Police database hacked
Graham Cluley reports a second breach involving the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART): A database belonging to the BART Police Officers Association appears to have been hacked, and the names, postal and email addresses of officers posted online. Just over 100 officers are listed in the document, in what is clearly a serious security breach….
Security breach in April 2010 reported to affected Purdue U. math students in 2011
If you’ve taken a math class at Purdue, your security could be at risk. Purdue University (PU) said 7,093 former students and faculty who took part in a math course could be at risk. University officials said an unauthorized person broke into their computer system on April 5, 2010, and tried to use the server…
Another Korean data breach – GOMTV.NET reports hacker compromised user information, including passwords
Paul Ducklin reports that Seoul-based streaming media service GOMTV suffered a breach involving usernames and passwords. An email sent to customers on August 14 said: Dear Valued GOMTV.net users: We regretfully inform you that approximately at 2 AM KST, Aug.12th, there has been an attack against our web site, GOMTV.net. We have found that some…