I just came across a more detailed news report on the VietNam breach I mentioned yesterday. Tuoi Tre reports: In October 2010, [Duong Hong] Le set up the company’s official website at danhsachkhachhang.com, but the site has focused only on offering to sell lists of information on individuals, companies and organizations. The website… contains the…
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Personal information of millions of Vietnamese offered for sale
VietNam reportedly has its first case of prosecuting individuals for selling personal information: Three men in HCM City, including Duong Hong Le, Le Minh Trung and Hua Van Tuan, are accused of illegally collecting phone numbers and personal information of millions of people who are clients at securities and real estate trading companies–to sale, earning…
Update: Saudi hacker warns he is in possession of one million Israeli credit card numbers
Oded Yaron reports: The Saudi hacker who managed to steal 15 thousand Israeli credit cards revealed another 11 thousand stolen numbers on Thursday, and threatened to release one million total stolen numbers. According to a message left on the Saudi hacking group Group-XP’s message board, the hacker, who goes by the name of 0xOmar, was…
Singapore’s NUS confirms security breach
Liau Yun Qing reports: Hackers have infiltrated the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) backend systems and made away with a trove of information, including staff usernames, domain information and hashed passwords. University has confirmed the incident but noted that the affected data is not confidential. According to a report Thursday on tech Web site Secure…
Bank employee admits sharing Hildebrand private data
Ellen Wallace reports: A computer system employee of Bank Sarasin turned himself into police 1 January, it was revealed late Tuesday, after sharing documents linked to currency transactions made by the family of Philipp Hildebrand, chairman of the Swiss National Bank. Swiss data protection and privacy laws make it illegal to share such information. The…
Some members of Anonymous go after neo-Nazi organizations and sites (update1)
OK, first I noticed a paste on Pastebin.htm on December 30 by a “guest” that simply listed domain names: www.deutsche-stimme.de www.ds-versand.de altermedia-deutschland.info flutopfer.npd-sachsen.de gfp-netz.de naweko.de nein-zum-euro.de npd-bremen.de npd-sachsen.de stehar.com tinten-sachse.de www.frank-franz.de www.holger-apfel.de www.naweko.de www.nno-tv.de www.npd-dresden.de www.npd-fraktion-burgenlandkreis.de www.npd-fraktion-sachsen.de www.npd-kronach.de www.npd-leipzig.net www.npd-nol.de www.npd-sachsen.de www.npd-weissenfels.de NPD is the extreme right-wing party in Germany, so the paste caught my…