An English theme park has been hacked and had a fair big amount of its users accounts leaked on to pastebin in one of the latest attacks on small pointless websites, but shows the lack fo security they all have. The theme park is Pleasure Beach, Blackpool.theme park and the leak contains 7,000+ user emails…
Square Enix Site Hacked – Again (Updated to Reflect No Personal Info Accessed)
In what appears to be its second breach in 2011, Square Enix has confirmed that it has suffered an intrusion. Matt Mann reports: Today Square Enix announced that both their Japanese and North American Square Enix Members sites have been hacked. According to Square Enix an unknown party gained unauthorized access to servers containing user information in…
Ca: Insider breach at Insurance Corporation of British Columbia linked to shootings, arson
This sounds like it might qualify as one of the worst – if not, THE worst – insider breach of 2011. When people affiliated with the Justice Institute of British Columbia starting seeing their homes shot at or set on fire, the RCMP began an intensive investigation. That probe has now culminated in the firing…
15k Accounts from Se7ensins.com
A person going by the name NOTJESTER has dumped 15k accounts from the website Se7ensins.com (seven sins), a gaming news community, just another warning to all the people who sign up to these sit The leak dates back to 2010, but no doubt a lot of the users are un aware they have been compromised. comes…
Saudi held for hacking IT firm’s server
The hacker, who was tracked down in a record time of 48 hours, also penetrated the sites of three other companies in an attempt to blackmail them. Spokesman of the Eastern Province police, Lt. Col. Ziyad Al-Riqaiti, said the investigation and homicide unit received a complaint from a large private company that its e-mail was…
I can just picture it….
Why risk getting caught downloading customer data when you can just take pictures of it? Trilegiant Corporation in Stamford, Connecticut recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a call center vendor’s employee had been caught taking screen shots of customer data (names and debit or credit card numbers) with his phone camera. The…