As seen on DPaste this morning and as tweeted by @RexMundi14: Dear friends and foes, Last week, we hacked our way into the servers of Swiss bank Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE). While we did not access any bank account, we did download 30,192 private emails sent by both Swiss and foreign customers, in addition…
Category: Non-U.S.
Hirsche Private Asset Emergency Announcement Regarding Breach of IT Security by Hacker Group
ZHONGZHENG DISTRICT, Taiwan, Jan. 7, 2015/PRNewswire/ — The company is currently investigating the malicious attacks that have shut down the ITs infrastructure. Hirsche Private Asset Management Ltd. urgently asks any clientele that are contacted by third parties not known to them to ignore any information requests or offers. Client data is thought to have been exposed and…
UK: North East school website hacked
I can’t remember whether I’ve ever seen parents keep their children home from school as a result of a school web site defacement, but that’s what happened in Yorkshire when the defacement suggested an Islamist group. Kenny Toal reports: A local authority has advised all public bodies and organisations to make sure their security software…
Three million Moonpig accounts exposed by flaw
Darren Pauli reports: Custom mugs and tat outfit Moonpig has a signficant flaw that exposes personal records and partial credit card details for some three million customer (sic), almost 18 months after it was reported. The failure, discovered and privately reported by developer Paul Price, meant every account and the names, birth dates, and email and street…
UK: Security breaches over Christmas on police’s website
The Eastbourne Herald reports: Sussex Police is investigating security breaches of its external website over the Christmas period. Three breaches have been identified within a contained area of the website and could possibly be linked. Amaraghosha Carter, the joint head of IT for Surrey and Sussex police forces, said, “A full investigation is underway to…
Leumi card employee arrested for extortion
Omri Ariel reports an update to a case previously noted on this blog: The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s office on Thursday indicted 30-year-old Eliran Rosens on charges of extortion by threat, conspiracy to defraud and several other offences, one of which is under a gag order. According to the indictment, Rosens, a former employee of…