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Massive Breach at Epsilon Compromises Customer Lists of Major Brands

Friday, 03 June 2011 01:07 Written by Mike Lennon

Due to the growing list of brands disclosing they've been compromised as a result of this breach, I’m going to go ahead and tag this as a massive breach. And I only expect it to get bigger as more announcements come out from Epsilon customers.

Last night we reported on a breach at marketing services provider, Epsilon, the world’s largest permission-based email marketing provider. Initially we wrote that the breach had affected Kroger, the nation's largest traditional grocery retailer.

// Read Article - Security Week

Stolen credit card numbers advertised via Twitter

Friday, 03 June 2011 01:05 Written by Zelika Zorz

You would expect online criminals to want to keep a low profile and restrict their attempts of selling stolen wares to shady online criminal forums, but every once in a while some of them surprise us with unusual attempts such as advertising their stolen goods via Twitter.

One of them was recently spotted by F-Secure. His (very likely) fake name is Sshoaib Ahmed, and his Twitter profile is filled with messages containing links to a page where he details his offerings.

// Read Article - Help Net Security

Sony Online loses 12,700 credit card account numbers, 24.6 million accounts compromised

Friday, 03 June 2011 01:02 Written by Ben Gilbert

Following up on this morning's news that Sony Online Entertainment servers were offline across the board, SOE announced that it has lost 12,700 customer credit card numbers as the result of an attack, and roughly 24.6 million accounts may have been breached.

The company took SOE servers offline after learning of the attack last evening, and today detailed the unfortunate results: "approximately 12,700 non-US credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes), and about 10,700 direct debit records of certain customers in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain" were lost, apparently from "an outdated database from 2007." Of the 12,700 total, 4,300 are alleged to be from Japan, while the remainder come from the aforementioned four European countries.

// Read Article -- Joystiq

Consumer Alert: Credit Card Numbers Stolen

Friday, 03 June 2011 00:57 Written by Consumer Alert

What happened? Hackers infiltrated the computers of CardSystems Solutions – a credit card processing center for MasterCard International. As many as 40 million credit card numbers may have been stolen, including American Express, MasterCard, Visa, Discover and other cards. NOTE: Social security numbers or other items of personal information are not at risk. Be aware that your bank or credit union may choose to place a temporary freeze on your credit card account to limit chances of unauthorized use.

// Read Consumer Alert - Washington State Dept. of Financial Instutions

Apple’s Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed

Friday, 03 June 2011 00:56 Written by Ryan Tate

Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.

The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised.

// Read Article - Gawker