As a follow-up to a previously reported breach involving a hack of HuskyDirect.com, there are now some reports suggesting that the data may have been misused. Back on January 11, U.Conn had posted a notice to its web site: The UConn Co-op was informed by its vendor that there has been a data security incident involving…
Category: Business Sector
28 million Plenty of Fish users’ personal details hacked – report (updated)
The founder and CEO of dating site Plenty of Fish reports that the site has been hacked and users’ names, email addresses, and passwords may have been acquired. Whether PayPal account information and other personal details were also acquired is uncertain and depends on whose version of the hack you read. It’s also uncertain whether…
CA: Arrest made in Laguna Beach credit card skimming
Claudia Koerner reports: Police arrested a 27-year-old Glendale man Thursday in connection with placing credit card skimming devices on gas pumps at the Shell Station on Pacific Coast Highway last summer, authorities announced Friday. Akop Tadevosovich Changryan is accused of using the devices to retrieve account information from drivers gassing up their cars at the…
Amazon.com Security Flaw Accepts Passwords That Are Close, But Not Exact
Dylan Tweney reports: An Amazon.com security flaw allows some customers to log in with variations of their actual password that are close to, but not exactly, their real password. The flaw lets Amazon accept as valid some passwords that have extra characters added on after the 8th character, and also makes the password case-insensitive. For…
2011: The Year of Epic Hacking
Darlene Storm has an interesting recap of some breaches in the first month of 2011 that includes a breach this blog didn’t even know about. Specifically: In India, Domino’s Pizza database of online ordering customers was hacked. It sent a letter to customers, alerting them of the breach, yet the company sort of blew it off…
Was a package of W-2’s shipped by Ceridian via FedEx tampered with? Ember Corp. prudently decides not to take chances.
Boston-based Ember Corporation is notifying 50 current and former employees of a possible breach after a package shipped by its payroll provider, Ceridian, via FedEx appeared to have been tampered with during shipment. In a notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Ember’s counsel indicated that the package arrived on January 10 but two…