The Daily Tech published an editorial yesterday. Here’s how it begins: There’s no real winners with the latest Sony hack Sometimes there’s just a story that’s just plain sad all around. This is arguably the case with the latest hack of Sony Corp (6758), in which the company lost another 1 million user records and hackers…
Category: Non-U.S.
Sony Europe hacked by Lebanese hacker… Again
Chester Wisniewski writes: By my count this is unlucky hack number 13 for Sony. A Lebanese hacker known as Idahc dumped another user database at Sony Europe containing approximately 120 usernames, passwords (plain text), mobile phone numbers, work emails and website addresses. Read more on Naked Security.
Hackers say Acer breach leaked data for 40,000 users
Dan Goodin reports: Hackers say they breached the website security of computer-maker Acer and made off with data for 40,000 of its customers. Screenshots posted on Friday on The Hacker News appeared to show the purchase histories, names, email addresses, and partial addresses and phone numbers for a limited number of customers stored on acer-euro.com. The site said…
Ca: Mountie docked pay for snooping in database [repost]
[repost] Gary Dimmock reports: A disgraced Mountie has been docked eight days pay after an internal investigation revealed the constable had made numerous unauthorized checks on the force’s national crime data bank and shared some of the information with his wife, an associate and former business partner of a Hells Angel. Const. Todd Glasman became…
UK: Police officers disciplined over private snooping [repost]
[repost] More than 50 police officers in the West Midlands have been disciplined for using police computer systems to check up on people for personal reasons. Some officers have been sacked, fined, or handed written warnings, and others have been reduced in rank after being caught obtaining information for private use between 2005 and 2010,…
SelfCatering.ie hack revealed in report on Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner [repost]
[repost] One of the case studies in the 2010 annual report of the Data Protection Commissioner discussed a breach that I had not seen before: Case study 14: Hacking attack on SelfCatering.ie website A bank made a data security breach notification to my Office in 2009 in relation to the credit cards of 1200 customers…