Billy Gallagher reports: Stanford University urged network users to change their passwords late Wednesday evening, explaining that it “is investigating an apparent breach of its information technology infrastructure.” Randall Livingston, Stanford’s chief financial officer, emailed the entire Stanford community, noting that Stanford does “not yet know the scope of the intrusion.” Read more on TechCrunch. Alerts…
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FR: OVH systems hacked, customer data stolen
Telecompaper reports: French internet host OVH informed its customers on 22 July that the private data of a few hundreds of thousands of European private and business customers had been compromised by a hacker. Founder and CEO Octave Klaba wrote to subscribers that the internal network of its headquarters in Roubaix was breached when a…
Hackers hit Lakeland with “sophisticated and sustained attack”, passwords reset
Graham Cluley reports: Kitchenware store Lakeland has emailed customers telling them that hackers managed to gain unauthorised access to its web systems and databases late last week. Although the company has confirmed that hackers accessed “two encrypted databases”, it has been unable to ascertain whether information was stolen. Read more on his blog.
Tango down! Chat app millions ransacked by pro-Assad hacktivists
John Leyden reports: Hacktivists loyal to Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad claim to have extracted 1.5TB of sensitive data from chat app Tango. […] eHackingnews, which broke the story, reported that Tango was hit thanks to a vulnerable WordPress installation, based on screenshots of the hack supplied by the SEA. Tango confirmed it had suffered an…
Korea grapples with massive personal data theft, regulatory mess
Has reliance on Internet Explorer, ActiveX, public key system combined to open ‘black hole’ in cyber security? The Korea Herald reports: A string of cyber attacks have bombarded South Korea in recent years, leading to massive leaks of personal information stored in banks, government agencies and corporations. In January 2008, hackers stole the personal data…
Apple Hacked: Company Admits Development Website Was Breached (UPDATED)
Apple admitted Sunday that its website for developers had been breached by an “intruder” last Thursday, according to All Things D and other sources. In a letter to developers that confirmed the breach, the company did not “rule out” that developers’ names, mailing addresses, and email addresses could have been accessed. However, customer information is encrypted and was not…