The University of Chicago breach reported on this site in January and February has now been reported to at least one state attorney general. The breach involved a database belonging to the Biological Sciences Division. In a copy of their notification letter, submitted to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, Dr. Everett Vokes, Chairman of the Department of…
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Rogers statement on hack by TeamHans
A spokesperson for Rogers sent DataBreaches.net the following statement about the hack reported here yesterday: A single email address of one of our enterprise sales employees, who managed a small number of medium business accounts, was accessed last week by a third party due to human error (not system error). The third party was able…
“Short” hack at computer chip firm ASML
Janene Van Jaarsveldt reports: Chip manufacturer ASML has confirmed in a short statement that their IT systems has been hacked. The company states that immediate action was taken and that they are conducting an investigation. At this time it is unclear who is responsible for the hack. Read more on NLTimes.
Play.com customers report spam following breach at third-party marketing firm
Network Security Report reports: Play.com, one of the largest online retailers of consumer goods, has suffered a security breach. In a warning to customers, Play.com has said that customer names and email addresses may have been compromised. Play.com is washing its hands of direct responsibility, claiming that a third party on its marketing communications team…
Ca: Rogers hacked by TeamHans, customer contracts and sensitive corporate e-mails dumped
Hackers calling themselves TeamHans have hacked the giant Canadian communications and media firm, Rogers, and dumped a lot of corporate proprietary data to prove it. According to the hackers, who announced the hack on Twitter where they tweet as @TeamHans_, the dump includes: Contracts with corporate customers Sensitive corporate e-mails Sensitive documents regarding Rogers (corporate…
FORK ME! Uber hauls GitHub into court to find who hacked database of 50,000 drivers
Kieren McCarthy reports: Uber has subpoenaed GitHub to unmask netizens suspected of hacking its database of taxi drivers. The ride-booking app maker is trying to force GitHub [PDF] to hand over the IP addresses of anyone who visited a particular gist post between March and September last year. That gist is believed to have contained a login…