The North Atlantic Treaty Organization yesterday released a brief statement that one of its websites had suffered a “probable data breach.” “Police dealing with digital crimes have notified NATO of a probable data breach from a NATO-related website operated by an external company,” the statement read. “NATO’s e-Bookshop is a separate service for the public [...]
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The Home Shopping Network is warning its customers of a recent incident that could have exposed their names and emails to an unknown hacker. In an email to customers obtained by The New New Internet, Gregg Stallwood, senior vice president of customer care at HSN, said the company had learned from its email provider, Epislon, [...]
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A dating advice site run by eHarmony was compromised recently, exposing names, email addresses and hashed passwords, the dating site said yesterday. EHarmony on Thursday said some data was obtained without authorization from its ancillary informational site, eHarmony Advice. The intruder was able to snag a file from one of the eHarmony Advice database that [...]
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A 20-year-old man who was charged with trying to download the code of a soon-to-be released videogame at a tech convention pleaded not guilty in court today. On March 28, Justin D. May of Delaware was attending the March PAX East 2010 in Boston, where he allegedly used his laptop to hack into an Xbox [...]
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