Elinor Mills reports: The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is warning its customers that their personal data may have been exposed in a recent breach, an SFPUC spokesman told CNET today. SFPUC noticed a few weeks ago that an unsecured server that was storing customer data also had some viruses on it, according to spokesman…
Category: Malware
Google reveals breaches; reminds users how to stay safe online
Eric Grosse posted the following to Google’s blog today: […] Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems*, we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users…
(follow-up) Kr: Regulator plans to discipline Hyundai Capital over hacking
A Hyundai Capital data breach disclosed in April is resulting in consequences from South Korea’s financial regulator. Yonhap News Agency reports: South Korea’s financial regulator decided Wednesday to punish Hyundai Capital Services Inc. for lax computer system maintenance, which led to a major hacking attack at the biggest local consumer finance firm. The Financial Supervisory…
(update) Massachusetts breach affected over 200,000
As a quick update: Matt Liebowitz of SecurityNewsDaily.com reports that the Massachusetts data breach disclosed yesterday may have impacted 210,000.
Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development Reports a Virus Infiltrated the Computer Systems of Agencies tied to Employers, Unemployed Claimants and Career Center Customers
The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) today reported that the Departments of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) and Career Services (DCS) network, individual computer terminals as well as individual computers at the One Stop Career Centers were infected with the W32.QAKBOT virus, a new strain of a computer virus, beginning on April 20, 2011….
Student hacked into computers to boost gamer status
Yet another lenient sentence in a hacking case? BBC reports: A student who hacked into more than 100 computers has been given a suspended jail sentence. Paul McLoughlin, 22, from Liverpool, tricked web users into downloading software which enabled him to access their personal information. Police said he wanted to use other people’s gaming accounts…