eBay before getting hacked stood against the requirement of any legal response to privacy breaches. According to the company, there is no need of any penalty on the company, who is being found involved in the breach of their customers’ privacy. The company explained to Australian Law Reform Commission that…
Vocal against Data Breach – Senate warned Big Ones!
It looks like that data protection act is getting more stern over the heads of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other big companies, which provides the services to the users around the globe. However, now the senate has even warned them to fasten their measures for the data protection otherwise the…
Data Breach at Michaels Stores Exposes 3 Million Credit Cards.
Approximately 2.6 million payment cards used at Michael’s locations were accessed, along with 400,000 cards used at Aaron Brothers. After a thorough analysis it was discovered that the reason behind was an attack by criminals using highly sophisticated malware which was not encountered previously by any of the security firm….
UPMC Data Breach Affects 27,000 Employees
Though it’s not yet clear how the data was accessed, at least 788 UPMC employees have already been victims of tax fraud. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) recently announced that as many as 27,000 of its 62,000 employees may have been affected by a recent data breach that…
Breach Point-Of-Sale risks millions of payment cards – Michaels, Aaron Brothers
The Michaels breach involved malware on point-of-sale systems that neither security firm had encountered before, Michaels CEO Chuck Rubin wrote in a Thursday statement, explaining the malware has been removed and the incident has been fully contained. About 2.6 million payment cards may have been compromised from Michaels outlets between…
Canada Revenue Agency breach causes Heartbleed hacker arrested
Canadian police has arrested and charged, 19-year-old by a who allegedly exploited the Heartbleed bug to steal personal data from the Canadian Revenue Agency’s website. Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes, grabbed 900 social insurance numbers (SINs) over a period of six hours, marks the first time that authorities have apprehended someone…
Boxee.tv breach exposed data of 1,54000 users
Ars reports that last week’s hack of Boxee revealed the data, including username, email address, passwords and forum messages of over 154000 users. The data is published online in a massive MySQL file of about 800 MB in size which is still circulating online. Boxee.tv is a web based tv…
Texan liquor chain Spec’s leaks 550k card details in 17 month breach
A prolonged network attack comprised some 550,000 credit cards details of of the customers associated with Houston, Texas based wine stores SPEC’s. The attacked continued for almost 17 months before authorities knew about it a few days before. Spec’s operated one of the largest chain of wine stores and is…
Arab Hackers Breach Israeli Cyberspace and Threaten Israeli Journalists.
Recently, Muslim hackers breached Israeli cyberspace and comprised www.israeldefense.com. Following this attack, hundreds of Israeli citizen and journalists have been receiving threatening text sms warning them of grave consequences and possible retaliation if Israel continues in occupying Gaza. Time of Israel has been tracing the activity and suggests that the…
U.S. retailer Michaels warns of possible payment card breach
Michaels Companies Inc, the biggest U.S. arts and crafts retailer, said it is investigating a possible security breach on its payment card network and advised customers to check their financial statements for fraudulent activity. If confirmed, it would mark the second known data breach since 2011 at Michaels, which is…