Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie report: Computer hackers have penetrated the database of Australia’s biggest internet domain name auction house, possibly accessing client home addresses and encrypted credit card numbers. Netfleet yesterday told clients of the security breach and said it had reported the incident to the Australian Federal Police and CERT Australia – the…
Category: Business Sector
AU: Privacy Commissioner probes Fairfax hack (updated)
Darren Pauli reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has opened an investigation into the breach of two Fairfax microsites to probe whether sufficient security mechanisms were in place during the attacks. […] Fairfax confirmed that two of its microsites were hacked but said up to 10,000 unencrypted credit card details compromised in the same attack…
CT: Fairfield man charged with computer crime after hacking into former Wilton employer’s system
Matt Coyne reports that a former employee of Segmark Solutions was able to hack into their computer systems, causing $7,000 damage to the system and misusing corporate credit card numbers. My question is how was he able to do that? Did he really hack into the system or was his access not terminated when he left…
Over 12,000 digital game purchasers notified of breach involving TryMedia’s ActiveStore application
TryMedia, a subsidiary of RealNetworks, Inc.. recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach involving its ActiveStore application that is used by partner sites selling digital games. According to their letter dated January 13, the firm became aware of an intrusion into its ActiveStore application and believes the intruders were able to…
CORRECTED and DELETED: NC: Documents Containing Personal Info Found In Dumpster
CORRECTION: The incident reported in this entry was from 2009. Don’t know how it showed up as news in my newsreader, but my apologies for reporting it again as a new incident and am deleting it.
FL: Customer credit cards compromised at restaurant
Stephanie Kolp reports: At least eight people say they’re the victim of credit card fraud. And the one thing they all have in common is that they all ate at the same restaurant in December. Anthony Valerio was one of those victims. “I realized there was a $77 charge to my account and I didn’t…