Clara O’Brien reports: Streaming music service Spotify has become the latest company to be hit by a security breach as it admitted that it had uncovered “unauthorised access” to its systems. However, the firm said its investigation had shown only one user’s data had been accessed, and said it was not aware of any increased risk to…
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Avast takes community forum offline after data breach
Jeremy Kirk reports: Prague-based antivirus company Avast said Monday it took its community forum offline after a data breach, but payment information was not compromised. Usernames and nicknames, email addresses and encrypted passwords were obtained in an attack over the weekend, wrote Avast CEO Vince Steckler on a company blog. The attack affected less than 400,000 of…
Government Seeks Seven-Month Sentence – Time Served – for LulzSec Leader ‘Sabu’
Kim Zetter reports: As a reward for his extensive cooperation helping prosecutors hunt down his fellow hackers, the government is seeking time served for the long-awaited sentencing of top LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, also known as “Sabu.” After delaying his sentencing for nearly three years, the government has asked a federal court to sentence…
TradeMotion hacked
Oops. It seems TradeMotion, who describe themselves as the “Preferred Automotive Dealer eCommerce & Data Services Provider”- was hacked, and customer data compromised. Now one of their clients, AutoNation, is notifying some of their online customers that hackers may have accessed their names, postal and email addresses, telephone numbers and credit card numbers between March…
So how’s eBay doing on breach response so far?
Not well, it seems. There was no notice up on their site yesterday, and registered users did not receive e-mails warning them to change their passwords. Those who found out via media coverage rushed to the site today to try to change their passwords. The traffic was so heavy that the site couldn’t function well…
eBay argued against stronger privacy breach penalties
Josh Taylor reports: As eBay hastily informs its customers of its massive privacy breach, the company told the Australian Law Reform Commission that stopping reputation damage was enough of an incentive to protect customer data, and that statutory action against privacy breaches was unnecessary. Read more on ZDNet. By the way, the numbers are all…