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…
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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…
#Anonymous claims to have hacked BART; posts employee and rider data
On August 11, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) suspended wireless service. According to a statement posted on their web site the next day, their intent was to address an expected protest following an officer-involved shooting on July 3: Organizers planning to disrupt BART service on August 11, 2011 stated they would use mobile devices…
Mibbit reveals blog & test servers compromised
Yesterday, the Mibbit blog posted: At approximately 3pm GMT today unauthorised access was detected to the server which runs our Blog. In response to this we shut it down and began investigating. Later today at around 8pm GMT we shutdown our IRC services after it became clear that several pieces of backed up data had…
Bethesda Forums Hacked; All Passwords Reset
Seen on Capsule Computers: And Lightning Strikes twice. After having their main website hacked back in June [previous coverage on DataBreaches.net can be found here], Bethesda have now sent out a new email to all forum users, informing of a security breach. No guilty parties were mentioned this time around, and as of now it…
Reznick Group Notified of Potential Security Breach At Former Employee Benefits Service Provider, AssureCare Risk Management
Reznick Group, a top 20 national CPA firm, today announced that it has been informed by AssureCare Risk Management, Inc. (“ARM”), the former service provider of Reznick Group’s employee benefits plan from 2001-2006, that ARM has suffered a security breach of its computer server that may affect former and current Reznick Group employees and their…