Robert McGarvey reports that a credit union’s lawsuit against Fiserv has been resurrected by a Tennessee court: The Court of Appeals in Tennessee, in a ruling filed July 3, ruled that a lower court erred when it dismissed a suit filed by Copper Basin Federal Credit Union and CUMIS against Fiserv Inc., wherein the plaintiffs…
Category: Hack
Nintendo rewards program site hacked, names, email addresses and phone numbers possibly compromised
Nick Summers reports: Nintendo admitted today that Club Nintendo, a loyalty program that gives players exclusive products in exchange for registering their consoles and games, has been hacked. The company launched an investigation on July 2 after witnessing a “large” number of errors on the site. Nintendo can now confirm that 23,9326 unauthorized log-ins occurred between June…
Chinese University website hacked and personal data stolen
From the South China Morning Post: The personal information of 60 students and teachers in Chinese University’s mechanical engineering department has been stolen and transferred to an overseas website by hackers, police said. Names, login IDs, student and staff numbers and e-mail addresses were stolen from a website for the online submission of work in…
Vendini breach update
As I’ve noted before, the Vendini breach, reported previously on this blog, appears to fairly large, but has generally flown under national mainstream media attention. Instead, I see bits and pieces in local media or on organizations’ web sites as entities report that their patrons or members were affected (cf, reports involving Purple Rose Theatre,…
Ubisoft notifies UPlay users to change passwords following breach
Ubisoft has posted an announcement on their site today: Hello All, We recently found that one of our Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorized access to some of our online systems. We instantly took steps to close off this access, to begin a thorough investigation with relevant authorities, internal and external security experts, and…
Around 100,000 members of Korea’s presidential office site hacked
The numbers keep changing on a breach reported last week. Now Arirang News reports: We reported earlier last week that the website of Korea’s presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae came under a cyber-attack on Tuesday and on this Sunday, new reports show that personal information of around 100-thousand Cheong Wa Dae website members has…