Tag archive: breach

According to the New York Times, Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut proposed the Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act of 2011 this week in order to hold businesses accountable for data breaches that put customers at personal or financial risk. This bill is directed at companies that have more than 10,000 users or customers and require the businesses to implement specific security measures as well as have a response team in… Read More

Ninety percent of businesses have been hacked in the past year, according to a survey (PDF) of 583 US companies sponsored by  Juniper Networks. A full 59 percent of the IT professionals interviewed for the survey reported that they had been hacked two or more times, with 9 percent saying that they had endured at least five network intrusions in the past 12 months. While more than two thirds of respondents said they were confident in their… Read More

Hackers have hit the International Monetary Fund with a “large and sophisticated cyberattack,” reports The New York Times. The IMF oversees the global financial system, and has highly confidential records about the economies of nations around the world. IMF staff and its board of directors learned of the attack on Wednesday, but no public pronouncement about the breach has yet been made, besides a vague statement by an IMF spokesman… Read More

This is why we can't have nice things: Following an attack on on PBS.org, Sony and an affiliate group of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, hacker clan Lulz Security (LulzSec) has now breached the systems of Nintendo, reports the Wall Street Journal. This time, however, no user data has been released, the Wii maker said on Sunday. “There were no third-party victims,” said Ken Toyoda in a statement on the matter. “But it… Read More

Hacker group Anonymous has leaked 10,365 “top secret” emails from Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Anonymous says the files were accessed after the group infiltrated the Iranian Passport and Visa Office email center. All the files are currently available for download from MediaFire , as well as various BitTorrent sources. Most of the emails concern visa applications for “an oil meeting,” according to an unnamed… Read More

Sony's nightmare continues this week, with with news out today that hackers infiltrated the Sony BMG Greece on May 5, and stole users' personal data, some of which was then posted online this weekend. News of the hack comes via Hacker News, which reports that an anonymous user, who goes by the name b4d_vipera, uploaded a database of user information to pastebin.com. The database includes the names and email addresses of people… Read More

Sony has now restored its PlayStation Network for most users around the world — but not in the company's home country, Japan. Due to lingering security concerns, the Japanese government has so far refused to allow Sony to turn the PSN back on, reports Dow Jones. Kazushige Nobutani, an official with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said that the Japanese government was still waiting for Sony to provide addition details about the… Read More

Sony's PlayStation Network has finally started to come back online, Sony Corp. President and chief executive Kazuo Hirai announced Saturday evening. The mandatory PlayStation 3 system update (v3.61) is currently available. Once installed, many PSN services, including online game-play for PlayStation 3 and PSP, should soon be available for users in the Americas, Europe, Australia and New Zealand and the Middle East. Sony expects to have… Read More

With its PlayStation Network still crippled from a round of cyber attacks, Sony is reportedly considering offering a reward to anyone who offers up information that helps reveal identities of the hackers who launched the attacks, reports All Things Digital. The company has not yet reached a decision to offer a reward, but shows how desperate the company is to catch the culprits. If Sony does decide to offer a reward, it will reportedly do so in… Read More

It ain't over till it's over: A group of unidentified hackers is reportedly planning a third attack against Sony, which is still trying to clean up a security breach that left the personal data of more than 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity gamers exposed and the network itself in shambles. According to CNet, an “observer” of an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel used by the hackers oversaw the group's… Read More

What's being described as a “massive” security breach at email marketing firm Epsilon has compromised the customer names and emails of some of the largest companies in the US, including seven of Fortune's top 10 institutions, reports SecurityWeek. Epsilon reportedly sends out 40 billion emails each year for more than 2,500 clients. SecurityWeek reports that clients of Epsilon affected by the infiltration include: TiVo,… Read More

After almost months of investigations, Ohio State University revealed that it is notifying about 760,000 students, professors, and other employees that their names and Social Security numbers may have been stolen. The university will spend $4 million to pay for the investigation and credit-protection services for those who have been affected by the attack, which is one of the largest to hit a university. In late October, the university… Read More

In February the Bank of New York Mellon lost a number of unencrypted tapes containing details of customers, including names, address, Social Security numbers and birth dates. At the time it said 4.5 million customers has been affected, and in May Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell announced a probe into the data breach. Now, according to Reuters, the bank has admitted the real figure of those involved in 12.5 million, making it the largest US… Read More