Kelly Fiveash reports: The Australian division of mobile giant Vodafone has admitted that one of its employees illegally accessed the phone records of a journalist to try to uncover her sources, following publication of a negative story. However, Vodafone – which first investigated allegations of a privacy breach four years ago – has strongly denied…
Category: Business Sector
CVS confirms customer data stolen in PNI Digital Media attack (updated)
There’s an update to the PNI Digital Media breach that affected the online photo centers for major retailers such as CVS, Costco, Walmart, RiteAid, Sam’s Club. The breach was first disclosed over the summer, but now AP reports that investigators for CVS have not only confirmed the hack, but some customers’ information may have been…
Ex-president of GOP media company gets probation, fine for hacking
Randy Ludlow reports: The former president of a prominent Republican political-advertising firm received no prison time on Wednesday for three charges stemming from his dismissal. Nicholas P. Everhart, formerly of Strategy Group for Media, was fined $2,800 and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service by Delaware County Common Pleas Judge David Gormley. He…
Once seen as bulletproof, 11 million+ Ashley Madison passwords already cracked
Dan Goodin reports: When the Ashley Madison hackers leaked close to 100 gigabytes’ worth of sensitive documents belonging to the online dating service for people cheating on their romantic partners, there seemed to be one saving grace. User passwords were cryptographically protected using bcrypt, an algorithm so slow and computationally demanding it would literally take centuries…
In: Woman arrested for hacking into ex-employer’s computers
NewKerala.com reports: A 30-year-old woman was arrested on Wednesday for hacking and destroying data on her ex-employer company’s computers, police said. The former employer was not named in the NewKerala reporting, but they noted: Police said there were cookies to access the user-Id of the company in the laptop of the woman, with the help…
More TransformPOS clients possibly affected by security incident? (updated)
Here we go….? On Sept. 1, this blog noted a breach involving a TransformPOS client in Illinois. The client, Village Pizza & Pub, says they learned of the breach on July 27th. Now there may be other, possibly related breach reports in Wisconsin. Negassi Tesfamichael of The Daily Cardinal (a U. Wisconsin-Madison student publication) reports: The UW-Madison Police Department…