Waqas writes: Anonymous, the world famous hacktivist group, has now declared war on the Thai government due to its implementation of single internet gateway consolidation policy. CAT Telecom Pcl, the premier telecommunication website of Thailand, became the first target of Anonymous’ rage. […] Anonymous claims that the group managed to steal confidential details about the…
Category: Business Sector
Noble House Identifies, Discloses Payment Card Security Incident
Noble House Hotels and Resorts was alerted to a potential issue after receiving calls from guests who had used a payment card at one of Noble House’s properties, The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, and then saw unauthorized charges on that card. Noble House immediately initiated an investigation and engaged a computer security firm to examine its payment system for any…
TalkTalk hacker ‘looking for money;’ ransom demand received
BBC reports: The head of TalkTalk says she has had an email demanding a ransom from a group purporting to be behind the cyber-attack suffered by the company. Chief executive Dido Harding said she did not know whether the ransom email was genuine. The phone and broadband provider said personal and banking details of up…
Update: TalkTalk Hacked: 4M Customer Records Stolen In Attack Linked To Islamic Cyberterrorism
David Gilbert reports: TalkTalk, the U.K.-based telecoms company, has admitted that it has suffered its third major cyberattack in the last 12 months with data from its 4 million customers compromised by hackers in a “significant and sustained attack” on its website. In the wake of the admission by TalkTalk, the company’s shares on the London Stock…
Online accounting software Xero tells users to reset passwords, after accounts breached (UPDATED)
Update: Xero denied any breach. Graham Cluley reports: Cloud-based accounting service Xero has told its customers to reset their passwords after a “small number” of users had their accounts compromised. At the time of writing there was no obvious advisory on Xero’s website, blog or Twitter account, but news of the security warning was sent out to customers…
Aspen Way Enterprises and Aaron’s Inc. lose coverage in privacy breach case
Yelitza V. Dunham of Winston & Strawn LLP writes: A group of Liberty Mutual insurance companies successfully obtained declaratory relief that they had no duty to defend Aspen Way Enterprises and Aaron’s Inc. from two underlying actions alleging that spyware had been installed on rent-to-own computers. One of these, the Byrd Action, was a putative class action…