The fallout continues from the May 10 breach of Citi’s credit card account files by hackers. The bank now says that a total of around $2.7 million was stolen from a relatively small percentage of the 360,000 breached accounts. [More]
How Hackers Stole 200,000+ Citi Accounts Just By Changing Numbers In The URL
By June 14, 2011
Details have emerged has to how hackers were able to steal over 200,000 Citi customer accounts, including names, credit card numbers, mailing addresses and email addresses. It turns out quite easily, in fact. All they had to do was log in as a customer and change around a few numbers into the browser’s URL bar, NYT reports. Facepalm. [More]
Report: Citi Knew About Credit Card Hack For Weeks Before Going Public
By June 13, 2011
Last week, Citigroup announced that around 200,000 credit card accounts had been compromised by hackers, but a new report from the Wall Street Journal says the bank knew something was wrong weeks earlier. [More]
Breach: Citi Says Hackers Stole Hundreds Of Thousands Of Credit Cards
By June 9, 2011
Roughly 200,000 Citi customers’ credit cards were stolen by hackers in a breach the bank just announced today. The data included names, credit card numbers, mailing addresses and email addresses. [More]
Nintendo's US Servers Hacked, Says No User Info Was Compromised
By June 5, 2011
Following in Sony’s unfortunate footsteps, Nintendo announced that their US servers were hacked Sunday, but they say no personal or company information was lost. [More]
Sony: PlayStation Network Users' Credit Card Info May Have Been Leaked
By April 26, 2011
Sony’s early bid for a high seed in next year’s Worst Company tournament continues, as does the mass outage of its PlayStation Network. Yesterday, the company admitted that it wasn’t sure if users’ credit card info was compromised by whatever evil forces hacked the system, but now Sony has slightly upgraded that uncertainty by saying that credit card info may have been leaked. [More]
Sony Not Sure If Credit Card Info Was Compromised During PSN Outage
By April 25, 2011
Sony continues to deal with the fallout of its huge PlayStation Network outage, which has not only left 75 million users without access, but which also may have compromised users’ credit card information. [More]
E-Mail Breach Hits Best Buy, TiVo, Walgreens, Chase, Kroger, Many More
By April 4, 2011
What first looked like a small e-mail list breach at New York & Company over the weekend was just the tip of the iceberg as multiple national retailers and banks found themselves the victim of the same data hackers. [More]
