That latest data breach in South Korea is causing waves there, with estimates that 15-20 million have been affected by an insider breach at the Korea Credit Bureau: Worried Koreans on Tuesday packed into branches of one of the banks hit by the theft to ensure their money was safe, while lawyers said 130 people…
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Insecure healthcare.gov allowed hacker to access 70,000 records in 4 minutes
Darlene Storm reports: When it comes to the atrocious state of HealthCare.gov security, white hat hacker David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, may feel like he’s beating his head against a stone wall. Kennedy said, “I don’t understand how we’re still discussing whether the website is insecure or not. It is; there’s no question about that.” He added,…
KR: Out of the country? You’re out of luck: Expats left out in info leak case
Kim Tae-jong reports: Potentially hundreds of thousands of expatiates have been left out in cold in the largest financial data theft case in Korea’s history. Financial regulators as well as credit card firms and their parent banks have not provided any services for foreign credit card holders to check whether their data was leaked, nor…
20 million people fall victim to South Korea data leak; FSS calls on financial institutions to improve protections against insider leaks
AFP reports: The personal data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, state regulators said Sunday, one of the country’s biggest ever breaches. Many major firms in the South have seen customers’ data leaked in recent years, either by hacking attacks or their own employees. In…
Crime victims’ and witnesses’ sensitive information on devices stolen from researcher’s university office
Brian Bakst of AP reports: A University of Minnesota law professor has apologized to violent crime victims and witnesses after a computer with sensitive information of nearly 300 people was stolen from his office, but he said Friday that there’s no indication the thief has accessed the data. Criminologist Barry Feld, a prominent juvenile justice…
Target Hackers Wrote Partly in Russian, Displayed High Skill, Report Finds
Danny Yadron reports: The holiday data breach at Target Corp. appeared to be part of a broad and highly sophisticated international hacking campaign against multiple retailers, according to a report prepared by federal and private investigators that was sent to financial-services companies and retailers. The report offers some of the first details to emerge about the source…