Campbell Phillips reports on what appears to be a large breach involving an Australian e-tailer: Accounts registered with CatchOfTheDay before May 7, 2011 have been compromised according to a recent email to all of the business’ subscribers. As the email states, the breach occurred in early 2011 and is described as an “illegal cyber intrusion,…
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Update: Man arrested over Benesse data theft
Mainichi reports: A 39-year-old systems engineer was arrested Thursday over a massive customer data theft from Benesse Holdings Inc. on suspicion of copying confidential business data from the major correspondence education provider for children, police said. Masaomi Matsuzaki is alleged to have downloaded and copied Benesse’s data covering some 10.19 million customers — including such…
FL: Dothan woman convicted of identity theft charges
Matt Elofson reports: A jury convicted a Dothan woman Wednesday afternoon of seven felony charges in connection to a conspiracy to defraud the government through identity theft and the filing of false tax returns. […] According to evidence from the trial, Macena provided stolen identities to Ivory Bolen, also of Dothan, who used the identities…
Global Firm AECOM Notifies Workers Of Payroll Hack
Jeanne Price reports: With clients in over 150 countries around the glove, architectural and building firm AECOM employs thousands of individuals worldwide. Now many of those workers and their former colleagues have become part of the latest US corporate payroll data breach. AECOM is an acronym for Architecture, Engineering, Consulting, Operations and Maintenance – the company’s five…
CNET attacked by Russian hacker group
Seth Rosenblatt of CNET reports: A Russian hacker group that has attacked some of the biggest news and business sites in the world claims it penetrated CNET’s website over the weekend and stole a database of registered reader data. A representative from the group calling itself W0rm told CNET News in a Twitter conversation that…
Farrah Abraham’s frozen yogurt website hacked
The website for Farrah Abraham’s new frozen yogurt shop was hacked, and its homepage replaced with a graphic clip from her sex tape. Read more on FoxNews.