ABC News in Australia reports: An alleged computer hacker has confirmed guilty pleas to charges of theft of personal information. South Australian police alleged Anthony Scott Harrison, 21, infected more than 3,000 computers worldwide with software designed to capture bank and credit card details and had potential to infect up to 74,000 computers. Harrison has…
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(follow-up) NZ: Celebrities hit in Hell Pizza hack
As I’ve often argued, even just acquiring a home address in a breach can be problematic. The Hell Pizza breach may have created potential privacy problems for a number of celebrities, it seems. A pizza company’s customer database has been hacked and the details of several celebrities stolen. DJ Mike Puru, Target presenter Brooke Howard-Smith,…
Police detains hacker, who attacked server, network of big company in North Bulgaria
Authorities detained a hacker, who attacked the local network and servers of a big company based in the Northern town of Ruse, the press office of the Interior Ministry announced. […] The investigation revealed that the hacker used to make attempts against company’s network and server in the time period between June 26 – July…
Cn: Student data bought and sold online after gaokao
Liu Meng reports: Recently a news report uncovering the theft of personal data from thousands of registered gaokao (the national college entrance exam) examinees in one province has sparked concern of millions across the country. According to the Qianjiang Evening News report, the personal data of gaokao examinees in Zhejiang Province data were available for…
AU: Bolton loses his battle for Bottle
A costly consequence of security breaches. Ben Butler reports: Corporate raider Nicholas Bolton has lost his legal battle with internet domain-name regulator auDA over a security breach at his domain-name business. On Monday, auDa will take over about 10,000 customers who registered domain names through Mr Bolton’s company, Australian Style. The transfer can go ahead…
NZ: I know what you ate last summer
Patrick Gray writes: The online customer database of a New Zealand-headquartered pizza store chain has been compromised. Risky.Biz understands multiple intruders have compromised Hell Pizza’s 400mb database. While it does not contain any credit card information, it does contain in excess of 230,000 rows of customer entries. The company operates 64 stores in New Zealand,…