There’s an important update in the case that involved Court Ventures/U.S. Info/Experian, and Dun & Bradstreet, although the government doesn’t name the businesses in its press release. James Eng reports: A Vietnamese national was sentenced to 13 years in prison for hacking into U.S. businesses’ computers, stealing personally identifiably information (PII), and selling to other cybercriminals his fraudulently-obtained…
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Google accidentally reveals data on ‘right to be forgotten’ requests
Interesting data leak. Sylvia Tippman and Julia Powles report: Less than 5% of nearly 220,000 individual requests made to Google to selectively remove links to online information concern criminals, politicians and high-profile public figures, the Guardian has learned, with more than 95% of requests coming from everyday members of the public. The Guardian has discovered new data…
More details on the Napa & Sonoma winery e-commerce breach
Sarah Stierch has some additional stats on the Missing Link Network eCellar breach that affected so many wineries: According to the California Department of Justice and Napa Valley Register, over 70 Napa Valley, Sonoma County and Santa Cruz County wineries were victims of an April cybercrime attack. The attack was recognized in late May. Mysterious…
Sony Hacking Lawsuit Claims ID Theft Already Happening To Ex-Employees
Dominic Patten reports: Thousands of dollars in unauthorized credit card charges, attempts to open accounts under their names, and personal data showing up all over the Internet are just a few of the claims that Michael Corona, Christina Mathis and others are making in court documents filed last week. The former Sony Pictures staff members are saying…
Poonam Dasgupta’s husband files data theft case against former employee
The Mumbai Mirror reports: Naveen Luthra, the husband of Bollywood actor Poonam Dasgupta and director of a mineral water plant, has filed a case of data theft against a former employee. Luthra alleged that before leaving his organisation, Santosh Kale stole data and shared it with an employee of a rival brand. The complaint was…
In: ISRO arm Antrix’s website hacked?
FPJ reports: In a major security breach, Indian space agency ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix’s website has been defaced, possibly by the Chinese. Antrix markets the satellite launch services and other space data for global customers. Incidentally, on Friday ISRO had launched five British satellites. Antrix’s website was hacked a couple of days back and the…