Graham Cluley writes: Hackers have broken into the popular South Korean websites Nate and Cyworld earlier this week, and stolen information about 35 million social networking users. Names, email addresses, phone numbers and resident registration numbers of users are said to have been compromised. The BBC reports that the Korean Communications Commission has pointed the finger…
Category: Business Sector
Ru: Internet Shopping Data Compromised
First it was Megafon leaking SMS history and having it indexed on Yandex’s search engine. Now there’s a bigger breach. Natalya Krainova of The Moscow Times reports: A third Internet leak in just a week has exposed the private shopping habits of people at more than 80 online stores, including those selling model cars, perfume…
AU: Westpac cans cards as AFP investigates breaches
Luke Hopewell reports: Westpac has this week confirmed that it has canned the cards of an undisclosed number of customers following a fresh merchant data breach. The breach comes as the Australian Federal Police (AFP) opens a new investigation into recent merchant data compromises. Westpac told ZDNet Australia this week that merchant data breaches are…
GIS admits @AnonAustria hack was worse than it originally acknowledged
The Austrian Independent reports: Hackers nicked significantly more data from a subsidiary of Austrian broadcaster ORF than officials initially admitted, it has emerged. A spokesman for GIS, the ORF’s radio and TV fee agency, announced today (Tues) 214,000 customer data sets were stolen in the attack last week. He added that 96,000 of the data…
BET24 data breach: what did they know, when did they know it, and why the hell didn’t they disclose?
John Leyden reports: BET24.com warned customers on Monday that their personal data may have been exposed by a breach that took place in December 2009. The gambling site is only warning clients 19 months after the breach, although it said it had taken other measures, including resetting passwords, at the time of the breach. The…
Austrian TV users’ bank account data acquired by hackers
Associated Press reports: The Austrian authority that collects state television fees from customers says hackers have stolen 214,000 data files from its server, including 96,000 containing sensitive bank account information. GIS says the cyberattack by a group identifying itself as “AustrAnon” occurred Friday. It said Monday that it has started informing customers whose data has…