A Hyundai Capital data breach disclosed in April is resulting in consequences from South Korea’s financial regulator. Yonhap News Agency reports: South Korea’s financial regulator decided Wednesday to punish Hyundai Capital Services Inc. for lax computer system maintenance, which led to a major hacking attack at the biggest local consumer finance firm. The Financial Supervisory…
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(update) Massachusetts breach affected over 200,000
As a quick update: Matt Liebowitz of SecurityNewsDaily.com reports that the Massachusetts data breach disclosed yesterday may have impacted 210,000.
Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development Reports a Virus Infiltrated the Computer Systems of Agencies tied to Employers, Unemployed Claimants and Career Center Customers
The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) today reported that the Departments of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) and Career Services (DCS) network, individual computer terminals as well as individual computers at the One Stop Career Centers were infected with the W32.QAKBOT virus, a new strain of a computer virus, beginning on April 20, 2011….
Student hacked into computers to boost gamer status
Yet another lenient sentence in a hacking case? BBC reports: A student who hacked into more than 100 computers has been given a suspended jail sentence. Paul McLoughlin, 22, from Liverpool, tricked web users into downloading software which enabled him to access their personal information. Police said he wanted to use other people’s gaming accounts…
WA: Teacher Passwords Stolen, Grades Hacked At 3 Seattle High Schools
Someone has stolen teacher passwords and changed grades in a Seattle Public Schools computer system, the district said in an email to teachers obtained Thursday by KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. The district’s IT staff found the theft of network login passwords “appears to have been going on for the last few weeks, possibly longer,” the…
Malware compromises infogroup payment transactions
Omaha-based Infogroup recently notified clients that their credit card information may have been accessed. Attorneys for the data, research and marketing company informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on April 12 that the firm had recently detected that some of its computers had been infected with a virus that may have compromised some payment transactions….