Jennifer Fernandez reports: A Bennett College official said today that someone hacked a computer in the business office the weekend of Feb. 13, accessing personal information of potentially 1,100 employees and students. DeQuan Jones, director of information technology, said he believes it is the first time that personal information has been hacked at the all-women’s…
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Wyndham hotels hacked again
The Wyndham Hotel and Resort chain, which has suffered two known breaches since 2008, has reportedly suffered a third breach. Robert McMillan of IDG News Service reports: Hackers broke into computer systems at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts recently, stealing sensitive customer data. The break-in occurred between late October 2009 and January 2010, when it was…
Large-scale credit card data robbery in Helsinki
More on a breach covered here previously: The data from as many as 100,000 credit cards were endangered by a security breach, the financial paper Kauppalehti reports. “The Finnish police is investigating the data theft of at least 40,000 credit cards from a computer in a store in Helsinki, reports the Bloomberg news agency. The…
Cyber-whistleblower stuns Latvia with tax heist
The Associated Press provides more info on a breach previously reported on this site that may have resulted in the acquisition of 7.4 million confidential files by a hacker’s group calling themselves the Fourth Awakening People’s Army (4ATA): One of the group’s members, who uses the name “Neo” — apparently in reference to the hero…
Hackers Get Data on 10s of Thousands of Payment Cards
Helsinki police are investigating a computer system intrusion that gave hackers access to information about tens of thousands of different types of credit and bank cards. So far, the information for only a few cards has been exploited by the criminals. Altogether, the hackers accessed the numbers of over 100,000 payment cards from the poorly…
Two Chinese Schools Said to Be Tied to Online Attacks (updated)
John Markoff and David Barboza report: A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation. They also said the attacks, aimed at stealing trade secrets…