Around 300 oil and energy in Norway companies has [sic] been affected by one of the biggest computer hacking attacks ever to happen in the country, a government source said on Wednesday. National Security Authority Norway (Nasjonal Sikkerhetsmyndighet – NSM) revealed 50 companies in the oil sector were hacked and 250 more are now being…
Category: Business Sector
Dairy Queen Breach? HQ Says No, But Would it Know?
Brian Krebs reports: Sources in the financial industry say they’re seeing signs that Dairy Queen may be the latest retail chain to be victimized by cybercrooks bent on stealing credit and debit card data. Dairy Queen says it has no indication of a card breach at any of its thousands of locations, but the company also acknowledges that nearly…
Criminal defense firm joins the ranks of those who have backup drives stolen from cars (updated)
Nothing good can come from a breach notification letter that begins: During the early morning hours on June 27, 2014, a hard drive containing backup files for one of the firm’s servers was stolen from the locked trunk of an employee’s vehicle. Not surprisingly, there’s even more bad news. Vincent M. Imhoff, Managing Director of Los…
Geekface hacked; designers and users’ information accessed
Some designers who registered with Hatchwise.com or eLogoContest.com may be getting a nasty surprise – a breach notification: On or about August 5th, 2014, an intruder illegally gained access to a Geekface LLC server. The data accessed included personal information such as names, addresses, birth dates, usernames and passwords, and social security numbers. The data…
Orange sanctioned by French regulator after customer data breach
Orange has received a public warning from the French privacy watchdog Cnil after personal details of more than a million of its customers were leaked on the internet. Orange notified Cnil of the problem in April, blaming a technical fault at one of its marketing suppliers. Almost 1.3 million customers were affected, with their name,…
Comcast Data Breach Leaks Thousands of Unlisted Phone Numbers, Threatening Customers’ Privacy
Adi Kamdar of EFF writes: The longer my information is out there, the worse the issue gets, yet still no action. I have paid for unpublishing my information for years as I testified in a murder trial. Now, my wife, children, and I are [a]ll in danger; and I have nowhere to turn. Four years…