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…
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Vendini hack update
Back on May 22, this blog reported that Vendini, an online ticketing service provider, had experienced a hack on March 29 that they detected on April 25. Names, addresses, email addresses, credit card numbers and credit card expiration dates were on the hacked server. The firm started notifying its clients during the week of May 21,…
Data on 40,000 US Soldiers Stolen in South Korea Cyber-Attack – Claim
Edward Smith reports: Cyber-attacks were staged on Tuesday, 25 June, marking the anniversary of the start of the Korean War in 1950. The hackers compromised the websites of South Korea’s presidential office and several local newspapers. The unidentified hackers claimed to have obtained personal data belonging to two million South Korean workers and 40,000 US…
Nearly 3,000 Social Security Numbers Taken From Hendrick House
David Ade reports (all typos are in the original): The Hendrick House is trying to reach more than a decades worth of people who lived in the dorms, and tell them to keep a close watch on their credit reports. The breach happened sometime in 2011, and University of Illinois Police detectives tell us, a former…
What do consumers expect in the way of data security and privacy protections when they sign up for a premium subscription service?
What do consumers expect in the way of data security and privacy protections when they sign up for a premium subscription service? I was reading up on the class action lawsuit against LinkedIn following their breach last year, and discovered that the plaintiff had retained Serge Egelman, who conducted two new surveys in April on…
Former UNL student federally indicted in security breach
Lori Pilger reports a former student arrested in connection with the hack at University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2012 that also affected the state college system faces additional charges: Daniel Stratman, 23, already faced a criminal charge — reckless damage to a protected computer during unauthorized access — filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in December. Now he faces a dozen counts….