Helsinki police are investigating a computer system intrusion that gave hackers access to information about tens of thousands of different types of credit and bank cards. So far, the information for only a few cards has been exploited by the criminals. Altogether, the hackers accessed the numbers of over 100,000 payment cards from the poorly…
Category: Non-U.S.
Two Chinese Schools Said to Be Tied to Online Attacks (updated)
John Markoff and David Barboza report: A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation. They also said the attacks, aimed at stealing trade secrets…
Ie: Budget Travel customer data stolen
Elaine Edwards reports: Gardaí are investigating the theft of a memory stick containing personal details of tens of thousands of customers of Budget Travel, which went into liquidation last November. The liquidator, Simon Coyle, contacted affected customers yesterday to inform them their details were on a USB stick taken as part of a theft from…
Ca: Massive Windsor debit card scam even took credit union CEO Charles Janisse for $480
Sonja Puzic reports: No one was immune to the massive debit card fraud scheme that rattled Windsor over the weekend — not even the CEO of a local credit union. Charles Janisse, CEO of the Motor City Credit Union, was among hundreds of victims who’ve had money stolen from their bank accounts through automated teller…
UK: Dyfed-Powys Police worker ‘stole’ secret Royal data
A civilian police worker stole “highly sensitive” data about a Royal visit by the Prince of Wales from a computer, Cardiff Crown Court heard. Martin Lansley, 31, was working for Dyfed-Powys Police when he downloaded classified material meant for only senior officers. He admitted accessing unauthorised data and unauthorised manipulation of data. Lansley, of Pennant,…
Massive security breach suspected at Latvian tax office
The State Revenue Service (VID) in Latvia admitted Monday that its electronic security systems may have been breached and that millions of confidential documents could have been hacked. The Latvian television news programme De Facto said Sunday night that 120 gigabytes of data consisting of 7.4 million individual documents had been leaked from VID’s database…