The Digital Playground porn site has reportedly been hacked. Big time. The site that advertises “Porn worth paying for” may find itself paying dearly for a security breach that may have exposed over 72,000 customers’ details and over 44,000 credit card numbers. In what they claim as their first release, a group calling themselves The…
Category: Business Sector
UK: Nicked sensitive Avnet server disks sparks ICO probe
Paul Kunert reports an update on a breach I seem to have missed: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed it is investigating a potential data breach at Avnet Technology Solutions (TS) following the break-in prior to Christmas. As previously reported, thieves raided the enterprise distie’s Haslingden office on 21 December and made off with hard…
Fun Publications Admits To Security Breach, Apologizes for Inconvenience
Peter Van reports: Fun Publications has sent out a message to all Transformers Club members this weekend notifying the members that there was indeed a security breach related to their e-commerce database. In a written statement sent to members, Brian Savage says that “Fun Publications has determined that there is a security issue with our…
WikiLeaks starts to publish hacked Stratfor emails
Stephen Grey reports: The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA. The emails, snatched by hackers, could unmask sensitive sources and throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering by the company known as Stratfor,…
OR: Ex-Burger King worker accused of stealing credit card, bank info
Police say they have identified nearly 30 people who had their credit card information stolen by a former fast food employee. Andrey Mudryak was arraigned in Multnomah County court Wednesday morning after he was arrested on an outstanding warrant. Gresham police say Mudryak used to work the overnight shift at a Burger King on Southeast…
WI: more Weather Shield tax fraud cases are expected
Since April 2011, I’ve been noting reports of ID theft involving employees of Weather Shield in Wisconsin. Now more cases are being reported this month. A still unknown number of Weather Shield employees at the Ladysmith plant – seven on one day alone last week – have reported cases of federal fraud and identity theft…