John Ribeiro reports that Citigroup has updated its initial statement about its breach. Their updated statement is likely to fuel debate about time frames for disclosing breaches. It now seems that over 360,083 credit card accounts in North America were accessed by the hacker(s) during the compromise of its card account management website in May….
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ADP Statement on Security Breach Investigation
Automatic Data Processing, Inc., today announced that it is investigating and taking measures to address the impact of a system intrusion that occurred with one client at Workscape, a recently acquired benefits administration provider. The intrusion, which occurred on a non-payroll legacy platform that is no longer sold by ADP’s benefits administration business, was detected…
(follow-up) Texas man sentenced for hacking into computer servers of local company and NASA
Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, Minnesota, a 26-year-old Texas man was sentenced for hacking into computer networks at a Minnesota business and at NASA. U.S. District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Jeremey Parker, of Houston, Texas, to 24 months in prison on one count of wire fraud. He was indicted in the…
The Ingenious Infiltration of Citigroup
John Hudson writes: An IT expert speaking with The New York Times called it a Mission Impossible-like operation. Last month, a team of unidentified hackers accessed information to 200,000 Citigroup bank accounts by simply waltzing through the “front door” of Citigroup’s customer website. The bank came under fire last week for waiting nearly a month before notifying customers…
Revealed: How Citigroup hackers broke in ‘through the front door’ using bank’s website
Lee Moran reports: Hackers who stole the personal details of more than 200,000 Citigroup customers ‘broke in through the front door’ using an extremely simple technique. It has been called ‘one of the most brazen bank hacking attacks’ in recent years. And for the first time it has been revealed how the sophisticated cyber criminals…
Bethesda Softworks hacked, personal data ‘stolen’
Bethesda has revealed that its website was hacked over the weekend. Personal data, such as user names, email addresses and passwords, may have been taken in the attack. Credit card and personal financial information was stressed to have not been compromised. “Over the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites…