Thieves stole private data for more than 90 000 customers of Citigroup’s Japanese credit-cards subsidiary and resold it to others, the company said on Friday. “Citi Cards Japan, Inc. (CCJ) has come to know that certain personal information of 92, 408 customers has allegedly been obtained and sold to a third party illegally,” the company…
Category: Of Note
Data-Breach Disclosures May Decline 50% Under Proposed Bills
Corporate disclosures of data breaches involving U.S. consumers’ personal information may fall by 50 percent under legislation before Congress. House and Senate lawmakers have introduced at least five data-security bills this year requiring businesses to notify customers of intrusions if there is a “reasonable risk” that personal data including credit-card and Social Security numbers may…
UK: Personal data of those who signed up for contests on The Sun stolen in last month’s hack and posted online
Stewart Mitchell reports: Personal details of thousands of Sun readers have been posted online following the hack attack on News International last month. The paper’s parent company News International sent out warning letters to readers explaining that compromised information could have been posted online in the wake of the 19 July attack. […] “Details vary, but could…
#AntiSec/Anonymous claims to have compromised 77 law enforcement-related web sites and acquired personal information of 7,000 officers
The Hacker News reports that #AntiSec has attacked 77 law enforcement-related web sites. According to a statement posted yesterday on Pastebin by AnonymousIRC: Time for us to conduct a raid of our own. In retaliation to the unjust persecution of dozens of suspected Anonymous “members”, we attacked over 70 US law enforcement institutions defacing their websites and…
Data stolen from 35 million South Korean social networking users
Graham Cluley writes: Hackers have broken into the popular South Korean websites Nate and Cyworld earlier this week, and stolen information about 35 million social networking users. Names, email addresses, phone numbers and resident registration numbers of users are said to have been compromised. The BBC reports that the Korean Communications Commission has pointed the finger…
Commentary: Belmont bank must pay fine for data breach, but was a fine too harsh?
Greg Turner reports: Belmont Savings Bank agreed to pay $7,500 in a settlement of a consumer data breach case with the state attorney general’s office. In May, the bank lost an unencrypted computer tape containing the personal information of more than 13,000 customers. A bank employee left the backup tape on a desk instead of…