Adrian Chen reports: Fox Broadcasting employees might want to change their passwords: A database of about 300 employees and associates’ email addresses and passwords, apparently stolen from a Fox.com database, have been leaked by a hacking group that previously stole thousands of X Factor contestants’ personal information. The group Lulz Security has taken credit for…
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Central Oregon Community College Hackers May Have Compromised Student Information
1110 KBND points us to a statement on the Central Oregon Community College web site: Central Oregon Community College officials have identified some information on the COCC web site that may have been exposed as part of the recent unauthorized intrusion. COCC has taken down the web site while it works with law enforcement officials…
Sony removes data posted by hackers
Reuters reports: Sony said on Saturday it had removed from the Internet the names and partial addresses of 2,500 sweepstakes contestants that had been stolen by hackers and posted on a website, and said it did not know when it could restart its PlayStation video games network. The company, under fire since hackers accessed personal…
Congress not happy with Sony, Sony not happy with Anonymous, and gamers just unhappy, period.
Not a great day for Sony. First they got slammed at a Congressional hearing on data theft for not being willing to come testify. Representative Mary Bono Mack, Chairman, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, said: As Chairman of this Subcommittee, I am deeply troubled by these latest data breaches, and the decision by both Epsilon and Sony…
Ontario woman suing Sony over PlayStation breach
Aha – our Canadian neighbors have caught the litigation bug. The Canadian Press reports: A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in Ontario on behalf of about one million Canadian PlayStation and Qriocity users. […]The Toronto law firm McPhadden Samac Tuovi is proposing the class action suit against Sony Japan, Sony USA, Sony Canada…
SOE security breach: only “900” of stolen credit cards were active
Steven Williamson reports: Following the closure of Sony Online Entertainment’s network operations earlier today, the company has now confirmed that only a small percentage of credit card details – possibly seized by hackers during the recent security breach – could be used for fraudulent purposes. Earlier today, PSU reported that Sony Online Entertainment had shut…