Mitchell Bingemann reports: TELSTRA has been stung by another embarrassing privacy breach after the email addresses and phone numbers of more than a thousand of its BigPond customers were made accessible online. In what appears to be a repeat of another security compromise for Telstra, an online spreadsheet containing customer names, email addresses and details…
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UK: Information on 1.4m customers lost by Cattles Group Birstall headquarters
More than a million customers have had their personal details “lost” after a data mix-up at a loan firm’s Birstall headquarters. The Cattles Group, which owns Welcome Finance loans firm, has written to customers informing them that two back-up storage discs with private information about 1.4 million customers have been misplaced. Marlene Proctor, 31, from…
Chinese Hacks May Be a Challenge to Real-Name Registration
C. Custer writes that the recent release of so many old (and large!) Chinese databases might be politically motivated as a challenge to China’s real-name registration policy: The data released on the internet last week was already widely available in hacking circles, according to Wan Tao, the founder of a popular hacking online community. Wan…
Attacks on Chinese sites continue: Now it’s 40 million users of Tianya who get the bad news (updated)
Zheng Yi reports: The registration details of about 40 million users of tianya.cn, a big social networking site, were found to have been leaked on Sunday, following last Thursday’s discovery that user information had been leaked from several other websites. According to Web users, tianya.cn was hacked and some 40 million users’ names and passwords…
Cn: 20,000 Taishin Int’l Bank clients’ data leaked
Personal information of as many as 20,000 applicants for cash cards issued by Taishin International Bank (台新銀行) have been found to be part of a massive leak of information to a con ring recently busted by the police, the Chinese-language Apple Daily reported yesterday. The police discovered the massive trove of personal information from a…
Cn: Rumor: Renren Suffers Data Breach (UPDATED with Renren’s denial of any breach_
Rumors continue to circulate that Chinese social networking site Renren has been compromised, but there’s no confirmation at this time. Here’s another report: Passwords for 4.76 mln accounts with Chinese SNS site Renren have reportedly been leaked online. In response to the news, Renren has notified users said to be affected with instructions on how…