It must be headache-inducing enough to investigate one security breach. To discover a second breach while investigating the first, well, pass the Prozac. On August 8 , lawyers for Ohio-headquartered Thirty-One Gifts, LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that while investigating how administrative credentials had been misappropriated and used to transfer some consultants’…
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Epson Korea says 35 million 350,000 customers’ data hacked (updated)
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…
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…
Business owners report theft of computer data: University Heights Police Blotter
The co-owners of Chocolate Emporium, at the Cedar-Green Plaza, reported the theft of computer data by a former employee Aug. 8. The owners said the suspect, a Silsby Road man, 24, was hired to work there Jan. 31, and they had hoped to retire and sell the business to him. He was shown a computer…
UK: Children’s details stolen in playground raid
The personal details of around 1,000 children have been snatched by thieves who stole a computer from inside an adventure playground. Burglars broke into Bennetts End Adventure Playground in Hemel Hempstead over the weekend. As well as a computer, £850 was taken from a safe inside the council-run adventure playground’s office. Read more on Hemel…