Back in January 2010, this blog lined to a report that Boards.ie had been hacked. Irish tech lawyer and professor TJ McIntyre notes that additional information on the breach was subsequently published on Boards.ie and the following month, The Sunday Times reported: The hacker has already used stolen passwords and email addresses to access credit…
Category: Non-U.S.
(update) NZ: National admits Labour data breach – but denies passing names to Whaleoil
NZPA and NBR staff report the latest in the Labour Party donor list breach reported on this blog last night: The National Party has admitted exploiting a security hole in the Labour Party website but denies passing data to a right-wing blogger who plans to release the names of Labour Party donors. The Privacy Commissioner…
NZ: Labour apologizes over data breach (update1)
The New Zealand Press Association reports: The Labour Party has apologised to donors, after a right-wing blogger said he would release their personal details following what the party called a malicious breach of its website. In an email sent to donors yesterday, party secretary Chris Flatt said an investigation was launched after the discovery of…
(In)security update: Arrests in Sony hacking, plus Acer breach
Levi Sumagaysay writes: Spain has arrested three people in connection with hacking Sony’s PlayStation Network. According to the Wall Street Journal, Spanish police say the three are members of hacker group Anonymous, which has recently claimed responsibility for various attacks on companies such as MasterCard and Visa, as well as Sony. (Although Anonymous has said it was…
UK: Codemasters.com hacked, personal info may have been acquired
Seen at http://m0unds.net/files/breach/codemasters.html via @m0unds: Subject: Important information regarding your account From: “Codemasters” Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:27:25 -0000 To: [email protected] On Friday 3rd June, unauthorised entry was gained to our Codemasters.com website. As soon as the intrusion was detected, we immediately took codemasters.com and associated web services offline in order to prevent any…
UK: Employees who stole T-Mobile customer data made to pay £73,700 for violating Data Protection Act
Two former employees of UK mobile operator T-Mobile who illegally stole and sold select customer data from the company in 2008 have today been ordered to pay a total of £73,700 in fines and confiscation costs as part of a hearing at Chester Crown Court. David Turley and Darren Hames pleaded guilty to offences under…