Antti Vilpponen writes: Not exactly a startup news per se, but a healthy reminder to all those working with user credentials in their online services. One of the largest, if not the largest, online identity thefts has just occured (sic) in Finland. The service to be breached was Älypää, a Sanoma bought gaming site. The…
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Hacked personal data originating from China
Park Sung-woo reports: A 22-year-old Korean man named Kim is under arrest for purchasing lists of Koreans’ personal information, such as cell phone numbers and e-mail addresses, which had been hacked in China. After spending 1 million won ($880) for 31 million items of data since July of last year, Kim posted an Internet ad…
Durex condom orders leak on web – customer (update 1)
Remember the Astroglide breach, when customers who ordered samples of the lubricant had their personal details exposed online? Now there are allegations that Durex condom orders were leaking on the web. Last week, this site received a lead about a security problem involving the web site of a Durex product. On March 5, a customer…
Airport Worker Accused Of “Skimming” Credit Cards
CBS4 reports that an Orlando International Airport parking garage worker was skimming customers’ credit cards and then giving the info over to her boyfriend: On Friday police moved in an arrested 43-year-old Susanna Harutyunya. She now faces three counts of fraud. The thefts were discovered in December when a CitiBank investigator found that 17 separate…
(update) Virus that hit Mary’s Pizza “so new it was not even in virus database”
David Bolling provides more information on a breach reported here previously: The Plaza location of Mary’s Pizza Shack has been identified as the target of Internet hackers who penetrated the restaurant’s computer system with a “logger” virus that captured credit card numbers at the transaction terminal. The presence of a virus was discovered by a…
Hacker swipes credit card numbers at Mary’s Pizza
Mike McCoy reports: Patrons of Mary’s Pizza in downtown Sonoma will be alerted this week that their credit card numbers may have been stolen by an international computer hacker. Vince Albano, chief executive officer for the 18-store chain, expects to receive a report by Friday detailing the breadth and timing of the breach. Once that…