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…
Category: Business Sector
Update on Gallatin, TN card fraud
Law enforcement continues to shield the name of a breached business in Gallatin, Tennessee, even though they acknowledge that past customers might still become victims. Sarah Kingsbury reports, in part: To date, Gallatin police have received 203 fraud reports related to the outbreak, with the majority of charges showing up on bank and credit card…
Another Korean data breach – GOMTV.NET reports hacker compromised user information, including passwords
Paul Ducklin reports that Seoul-based streaming media service GOMTV suffered a breach involving usernames and passwords. An email sent to customers on August 14 said: Dear Valued GOMTV.net users: We regretfully inform you that approximately at 2 AM KST, Aug.12th, there has been an attack against our web site, GOMTV.net. We have found that some…
Kr: Court orders SK Communications to pay compensation for info leakage
Another follow-up on a massive data breach that resulted in the South Korean government discarding its plan to enforce real-name registration. Yonhap News reports: A South Korean court ordered on Sunday the operator of the country’s third most-visited Internet portal to pay out compensation to a user whose information was leaked during last month’s massive…
Mibbit reveals blog & test servers compromised
Yesterday, the Mibbit blog posted: At approximately 3pm GMT today unauthorised access was detected to the server which runs our Blog. In response to this we shut it down and began investigating. Later today at around 8pm GMT we shutdown our IRC services after it became clear that several pieces of backed up data had…
Bethesda Forums Hacked; All Passwords Reset
Seen on Capsule Computers: And Lightning Strikes twice. After having their main website hacked back in June [previous coverage on DataBreaches.net can be found here], Bethesda have now sent out a new email to all forum users, informing of a security breach. No guilty parties were mentioned this time around, and as of now it…