Christopher J. Miller reports: A regional head of the U.S.-based financial services and communications company Western Union said he is not worried about recent security breaches at Ukraine’s largest bank which allowed a hacker to obtain sensitive data of Western Union customers, potentially putting them at risk for fraud. Ulugbek Umarov, Western Union country director…
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Warrant issued for Western Cape hacker
From News24: A warrant of arrest was authorised in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court, Cape Town, on Friday for a woman accused of hacking the internet system of Parliament’s operations officer. Cleopatra Mosana failed to appear in court. The warrant would be issued if she failed to appear by 11 December, a court official…
Experian reports yet another breach of its database via stolen or misused client login
No, it’s not one of the monster breaches that Brian Krebs reports on, but the kind of smaller breach I’ve been tabulating wherein Experian fails to adequately protect consumer credit reports from someone stealing or misusing a client’s login. In its most recent disclosure, dated November 8, Experian reported that individuals’ credit reports were accessed…
Five other firms impacted by the Loyaltybuild breach
Conor Pope reports: Customers of a further eight companies including Clerys, Centra, Postbank and Pigsback have had their personal information stolen in the data breach at Co Clare-based company Loyaltybuild. Credit card information of customers of Clerys’ loyalty travel scheme as well as personal details including names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses are now know (sic) to have been stolen…
FBI warns of U.S. government breaches by Anonymous hackers
The Department of Energy hack noted previously on this blog may be part of a larger and longer campaign against government agencies by members of Anonymous who exploited an Adobe vulnerability. At least that’s what an FBI memo seen by Reuters seems to suggest: The hackers exploited a flaw in Adobe Systems Inc’s software to…
Drip drip dripping it out …. Loyaltybuild
Expect more clients of Loyaltybuild to be named tomorrow as victims of the firm’s data breach. It appears that Loyaltybuild just discovered last night that even more companies were affected and needed to notify them first before releasing the information publicly.