Chris Zappone and Jared Lynch provide an update on a breach reported on this blog earlier today: The Westpac-owned St George Bank is at the centre of one of the nation’s biggest credit card security breaches after financial information was leaked from one of its clients. The breach has already has forced banks to cancel…
Category: Business Sector
AZ: Member’s Personal Information Found in LA Boxing Dumpster
Amanda Hernandez reports: It’s a criminal’s dream. Hundreds of names, addresses, credit card numbers and everything else someone would need to steal your identity tossed into a dumpster. The trash behind the LA Boxing on Warner Road in Ahwatukee held a lot of what was once inside the building from memorabilia to customers personal information….
Honda Canada notifies customers of breach (UPDATED)
A DataBreaches.net reader alerted me that Honda Canada has been notifying some customers of a breach. According to a May 13th letter he received (French version, pdf), a breach involving unauthorized access of the My Honda (myhonda.honda.ca) and My Acura (myacura.acura.ca) web sites was detected in March 2011 and affected customers who were on certain…
(Update2) Lost Phoenix Ireland data tape had details of 62,000 customers
More than 6 weeks after news of the breach broke, Phoenix Ireland is now confirming that a breach thought to have occurred almost one year ago involved personal and financial data: Phoenix Ireland has confirmed that it has lost a data tape containing the personal and bank account details of 62,000 customers and potential customers….
Sony Ericsson Got Hacked by Idahca (Lebanese hacker Group) (update1)
From Hacker News: Again, DAMN … Whats Going on with Sony ?.. Idahca (Lebanese hacker Group) hack The database of ca.eshop.sonyericsson.com with a simple sql injection. Two attacks on Sony in one day. Today’s Morning LulzSec Leak Sony’s Japanese websites Database and Now Sony Ericsson’s Eshop Database Hacked. Email, Password and names of 1000’s of users…
Sony Music Japan hacked through SQL injection flaw
Chester Wisniewski writes: Another day, another attack on Sony. I reported yesterday on the SQL injection attack exposing user information on SonyMusic.gr and today attackers have found flaws in SonyMusic.co.jp. The Hacker News sent us a tip this evening documenting a couple of vulnerable web pages on SonyMusic.co.jp that allowed hackers to access their contents…