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Article | 28/06/2011 Groupon India data published on Internet, said researcher
The user database of Groupon's Indian subsidiary, SoSasta, was published on the Internet and indexed by Google, according to an Australian security co...
Article | 27/06/2011 They're back! Data breach notification bills resurface
After several large breaches -- including the <a href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/1457/epsilon_hack_notification_letters">Epsilon</a>, <a href="http:/...
Article | 26/06/2011 LulzSec calls it quits after 50 days of 'mayhem'
The computer hacking group LulzSec said Saturday it had ended its campaign of cyberassaults on government and corporate websites and that it was time ...
Article | 23/06/2011 Ukraine disrupts $72M Conficker hacking ring
Ukraine's security service said on Thursday it had disrupted a cybercrime ring that cost the banking industry more than US$72 million using Conficker,...
Article | 22/06/2011 Senator: New cybersecurity regulations needed for banks
Current regulations aren't enough to warn customers and protect them against data breaches at financial institutions, one U.S. senator said during a h...
Article | 21/06/2011 Dropbox left document storage accounts open for four hours
Online storage service Dropbox accidentally turned off password authentication for its 25 million users for four hours on Monday -- although "much les...
Article | 21/06/2011 Researchers: AWS users are leaving security holes
Researchers in Germany have found abundant security problems within Amazon's cloud-computing services due to its customers either ignoring or forgetti...
Article | 20/06/2011 Reports: Sega customer database hacked
Video game company <a href="http://www.sega.com">Sega</a> had a database hacked and sensitive information on about 1.3 million customers has been comp...
Article | 18/06/2011 German men sentenced for hacking Lady Gaga, Dr. Dre
Two German men were sentenced Thursday in a Duisberg court for hacking computers containing material belonging to Lady Gaga, Dr. Dre and other musicia...
Article | 16/06/2011 Payroll firm ADP investigating system intrusion
Automatic Data Processing said on Wednesday that it is investigating a system intrusion that likely impacted only one client.
Article | 13/06/2011 Acer says names, emails hacked in Europe
Taiwanese PC maker Acer is investigating the hacker attack that stole customer data from its Packard Bell unit in Europe, according to a statement fro...
Article | 12/06/2011 IMF is victim of 'sophisticated cyberattack,' says report
The International Monetary Fund has reportedly been hit with a "large and sophisticated cyberattack" that potentially puts sensitive, confidential dat...
Article | 10/06/2011 UK health service warned of poor security by hacker group
The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) said Friday that no patient data was compromised after an intrusion of one of its websites by Lulz Security, a ...
Article | 9/06/2011 Citigroup breach exposed data on 210,000 customers
Citigroup admitted on Wednesday that an attack on its website allowed hackers to view customers' names, account numbers and contact information such a...
Article | 9/06/2011 Sony's Qriocity back everywhere except Japan
Sony began restoring full service on its Qriocity entertainment network to users in most countries on Thursday, a month and a half after the service w...