Katie Begley reports: Simon Cowell has called in the FBI after hackers broke into his top-secret computer network. Closely guarded secrets about media mogul Simon Cowell and his new US X Factor show have been “stolen” by sneaky cyber crooks. The personal information and act details of more than 250,000 wannabes have also been…
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Taipei demands answers from Sony, threatens fines
Ralph Jennings reports: The city of Taipei is demanding that Sony provide details about any leak of PlayStation Network user data following an intrusion last week or face fines. As pressure mounts internationally against Sony over the failure of its PlayStation Network online gaming service, the Taiwan capital’s Law and Regulation Commission said late on…
Stolen info from PlayStation hack reportedly up for sale
While Sony has been assuring everyone that users’ credit card numbers were encrypted, other reports continue to suggest otherwise (including this chat log that has garnered a lot of attention). Now Asher Moses reports: Personal information and credit card numbers stolen from Sony’s PlayStation Network in one of the world’s largest privacy breaches are reportedly…
DSLReports says member information stolen
Elinor Mills reports: Subscribers to ISP news and review site DSLReports.com have been notified that their e-mail addresses and passwords may have been exposed during an attack on the Web site earlier this week. The site was targeted in an SQL injection attack yesterday and about 8 percent of the subscribers’ e-mail addresses and passwords…
Dealer-FX warns customers about alleged Xtime vulnerability that could potentially expose customer data
The following email was forwarded to DataBreaches.net by the recipient: From: Privacy Officer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:57 AM To: Privacy Officer Subject: URGENT SECURITY CONCERN Importance: High Dear Customer, We are writing to warn you of our recent discovery of a serious security defect in one of our competitor’s systems. The defect,…
Sony answers some questions, while more inquiries pile on
Sony has posted a Q&A #1 for PlayStation Network and Qriocity Services, responding to some of the concerns raised about their recent breach. Of note, they say that all of the credit card data were encrypted, although they acknowledge that the personal data table was not encrypted. More will come out in time, of course….