Yesterday, I posted an item about how the co-owners of Chocolate Emporium reported that a former employee stole their entire business platform and customer database, and used Dropbox as part of the incident. Here’s a related item by Tim Greene: Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised…
Category: Of Note
Kr: Court orders SK Communications to pay compensation for info leakage
Another follow-up on a massive data breach that resulted in the South Korean government discarding its plan to enforce real-name registration. Yonhap News reports: A South Korean court ordered on Sunday the operator of the country’s third most-visited Internet portal to pay out compensation to a user whose information was leaked during last month’s massive…
#Anonymous claims to have hacked BART; posts employee and rider data
On August 11, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) suspended wireless service. According to a statement posted on their web site the next day, their intent was to address an expected protest following an officer-involved shooting on July 3: Organizers planning to disrupt BART service on August 11, 2011 stated they would use mobile devices…
S. Korea plans to scrap online real-name system in wake of massive hack
It appears that a massive data breach affecting 35 million South Koreans who use popular portal and social networking sites Nate and Cyworld has served as a wake-up call for the government: The South Korea government will push ahead with plans to scrap the current real-name system for Internet users in the wake of the…
Citi Cards Japan data theft hits 92,408 in Japan
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…
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…