data theft
53M customer email addresses were also stolen in Home Depot breach
US retailer Home Depot has published an update on the investigation into the breach of their payment data systems and has warned that the attackers managed to get their hands …
Extracting data from air-gapped computers via mobile phones
A group of researchers from the Department of Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University in Israel have demonstrated and detailed a technique that can allow …
Pirate Bay co-founder sentenced for hacking CSC servers
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been found guilty of hacking into the mainframe of CSC, a company tasked with keeping and handling sensitive information …
CurrentC mobile payment system hacked, user info stolen
CurrentC, the mobile payment service backed by the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), has suffered a data breach. “Within the last 36 hours, we learned that unauthorized …
RBS WorldPay hack ringleader finally sentenced
Nearly five years after the day he was indicted, Sergei Nicolaevich Tsurikov has finally been sentenced for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and computer intrusion for his …
Staples customers likely the latest victims of credit card breach
International office supply chain store Staples is likely the latest retailer to have suffered a credit card breach. “Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern …
Small healthcare facilities unprepared for a data breach
While healthcare breaches are on the rise, most small facilities feel that their systems adequately limit the risk of a data breach despite one in three facilities spending …
Personal info of 850k Oregon jobseekers potentially compromised
851,322 individuals who used Oregon Employment Department’s WorkSource Oregon Management Information System (WOMIS) will soon be receiving notices that they information …
Kmart confirms month-old data breach, payment card data stolen
First via a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and then via a press release, Sears Holding Corporation has confirmed a month-old breach that affected POS …
The number of JPMorgan hackers’ targets rises
The distressing news that the JPMorgan Chase breach resulted in the compromise of data of some 76 million households and 7 million small businesses may be soon followed by …
Backoff POS malware found at nearly 400 Dairy Queen locations
POS systems at nearly 400 franchises of the International Dairy Queen fast food chain have been infected with Backoff malware, the company has reported on Thursday. The …
Privacy breaches in Europe
Half of all the privacy breaches affecting people in Europe are inside jobs according to new research from Central European University. The findings come from a report …