Virgin Media has said it was forced to take its website offline for an hour during a hack attack. Twitter feeds associated with the Anonymous collective announced: “Virgin Media – Tango Down #OpTPB”.he messages suggest that the attack was organised to protest against efforts to block access to The Pirate Bay’s (TPB) file-sharing [...]
02 Apr 2012 |
Global Payments admits at least 1.5m accounts impacted by breachA breach affecting Visa and MasterCard has been laid at the feet of payment processor Global Payments. In a statement, Global Payments announced that it identified and reported unauthorised access to a portion of its processing system. Chairman and CEO Paul R. Garcia said: “In early March, the company determined card data may have been [...] 
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27 Sep 2011 |
Hana SK Card Joins Samsung in South Korean Security BreachesIt has been confirmed that a telesales employee for Hana SK leaked approximately 200 customer records. Although this is a relatively small breach compaired to the 800,000 leaked by Samsung it is the second documented in as many weeks. For many South Koreans this issue is making it increasingly difficult to part with sensitive information however without such [...]
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