From Reuters: U.S. prosecutors have charged two men with stealing and distributing email addresses for about 120,000 users of Apple Inc’s popular iPad. Investigators accused Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer of using an “account slurper” to conduct a “brute force” attack over five days last June, to extract data about iPad users who accessed the…
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US iPad users’ data stolen, sets criminal charges
Developing: U.S. investigators plan to announce criminal charges concerning the alleged theft of email addresses and other personal information belonging to about 120,000 users of Apple Inc’s iPad tablet computer. Read more from Reuters on Montreal Gazette. I’ll have more on this after the announcement.
Trapster.com reportedly notifies users of hack, advises changing password
Jake Kouns of DataLossDB.org kindly sends along this notice, reportedly from Trapster. The site, which is intended to help users avoid speed traps and other hazards, reports another kind of hazard – that its site was hacked and user email addresses and passwords may have been accessed or acquired. Peer360 provides a copy of the…
Telecom database accessed by employees of Power Marketing Ltd?
David Fisher reports: A major security breach has revealed personal details of every Telecom customer – and a commercial rival is implicated. The Herald on Sunday accessed the Telecom database using login details supplied by sales staff working for rival telco Slingshot. It gave us names, addresses and billing details for every Telecom customer. The…
ICO statement on investigation into 2006 FIFA World Cup ticket information disclosure
Mick Gorrill, Head of Enforcement at the ICO, said: “In September 2010, the ICO opened an investigation into allegations that a database containing the personal information of 250,000 individuals who had purchased tickets for football matches in the 2006 FIFA World Cup competition in Germany, had been unlawfully sold on the black market. This followed…
(update) Vodafone fires staff after security breaches
Vodafone has fired a number of employees following an investigation into security breaches on the weekend. Customer records were leaked after a password to the telco’s internet database was shared by a number of people. Since the incident, Vodafone says it has let employees go and contacted the New South Wales Police. Read more on…