Hyundai customer information seems to have been hacked and leaked by TurkHackTeam.org. The data fields include userid, name, telephone number, email address, and other details for what appears to be hundreds of the firm’s Brazilian customers. The data from what appears to be over 350 customers were dumped in two pastes on Pastebin last week….
Mandatory vacation?
Well, I planned to do some news updates while I’m on vacation, but it turns out I couldn’t get a wifi connection at my friend’s home – or an ethernet one. Not sure why my American Apple products are having trouble here and BT support threw up their hands after 49 minutes. So… updating will…
Feds Looking Into Whether Hack of US Government Affected Private Citizens Too
Mike Levine reports: Federal investigators are trying to determine whether the massive hack into federal systems announced this past week impacted far more than the estimated 4 million current and former government employees already acknowledged by the Obama administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. In particular, investigators are considering the possibility that…
iiNet alert over security breach
Grace Millimaci reports: Perth internet provider iiNet is investigating a possible security breach after details were posted on social media about the sale of the database of a major internet service provider. Cyber War News posted an image on Twitter yesterday detailing claims of the sale or trade of an extensive amount of westnet.com.au’s database,…
IRS’s $130 million RFP to fix ID theft diverges from governmentwide initiative
Jared Serbu reports: The Internal Revenue Service has notified a relative handful of contractors that it plans to spend nearly $130 million to build its own new suite of identity verification services, an approach that appears to significantly diverge from an established governmentwide program to verify users’ identities. The agency issued a request for quotations…
In: OlaCabs hacked, credit card info accessed; company denies data breach
Shruti Dhapola reports: A hacker group by the name Team Unknown has claimed that they successfully hacked into OlaCabs and managed to get access to sensitive information like credit-card history, vouchers, user behaviour. Ola has denied these claims. According to the post, which was shared on Reddit, the hackers put out snapshots which showcased credit cards…