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'Greatest cyber-heist in world history'

Did a computer intrusion at a Best Western hotel in Germany open the door for a hacker to steal the records of 8 million customers and pull off "the greatest cyber-heist in world history", as a Scottish newspaper put it?

Or was the incident a significantly more minor affair, affecting only 10 customers at the one facility, as claimed by Best Western International?

The hotel chain and the Sunday Herald newspaper of Scotland are duking it out over the paper's story on the data breach. Best Western calls the article "grossly unsubstantiated" and "largely erroneous".

The story said a hacker installed a malicious program on a computer used for reservations at a Best Western hotel, and used it to steal a database containing details on every customer who checked into one of Best Western's 1,312 European hotels since 2007.

The hacker then sold the database through an "underground network operated by the Russian mafia", the story claimed.

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Million bank customers details sold on eBay

The eBay computer scandal which saw the loss of personal data on a million bank customers is to be investigated by the Information Commissioner.

The firms involved - the Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and American
Express - have also promised to launch probes.

The Mail revealed today that the data was found on a second-hand computer sold for £35 in an eBay auction.

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Hackers attack Facebook

On the Internet, popularity often draws the attention of hackers. So it is not surprising that Facebook has become the target of a spate of attacks, just as the membership on the site has swelled to about 100 million active users worldwide.

In recent days, many Facebook users have seen a sharp increase in spam, some of it pretty racy. Over the weekend, several Facebook users contacted us saying that their accounts appeared to have been hijacked, and some said their accounts had been deactivated.

Facebook acknowledges that it has been under attack but suggested the problems were largely under control. "Over the past few days, we have received reports from users of spam and phishing attacks," the company said in a statement. "We have also detected and contained a worm. We are investigating every report, removing false content, blocking bogus links and addressing the concerns of our users. These efforts have limited the affected users to a small percentage of those on Facebook."

Some of the attacks were linked to Koobface, an Internet worm that began targeting Facebook and MySpace users in late July. Since then, the Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab has identified about 27 variants of Koobface.

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US cracks 'biggest ID fraud case'

The US authorities have charged 11 people in connection with the theft of credit-card details in the country's largest-ever identity theft case.

They are accused of stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers before selling the information.

They allegedly hacked into the computer systems of several major US retailers and installed software to access account details and passwords.

Prosecutors said the alleged fraud was an "international conspiracy".

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 Posted by: Lite on August 10th, 2008 | 0 Comments made | Post a Comment


Congress Questions Network Data-Collection Methods

Congress wants to know: How do search engines use your personal data? The House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent out letters on Friday to major network companies asking them, among other things, how they use personal tracking data to serve up those highly targeted ads.

According to a statement posted on the Committee's Web site, top cable, Internet and phone companies have been asked to come clean about how they collect Web-browsing details. The investigation was triggered by the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet hearing on July 17 that focused on deep-packet inspection techniques. The letter "respectfully requests" responses to the Committee's 11 question by Friday, August 8. "Online users have a right to explicitly know when their provider is tracking their activity and collecting potentially sensitive and personal information," said Rep. Edward Markey, a chairman of the Subcommittee.

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 Posted by: Lite on August 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment made | Post a Comment


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