It looks like AT&T had a little issue yesterday afternoon in which the email address of some 114,000 iPad users were revealed. The news comes by way of Valleywag who are reporting that a hacker group called Goatse Security was able to figure out how to manipulate the AT&T website and trick it into giving more »

Unbelievably, Wyndham Hotels is reporting yet another data breach, it’s third in the past 19 months. That’s right, it’s third. This time it happened between October 2009 and January 2010 and affected an undisclosed number of hotels and franchises. “A hacker intruded on our systems and accessed customers’ information from a limited number of franchised more »

When RockYou.com’s servers were breached last month, 32 million passwords were stolen and posted on the Internet. RockYou committed a grave error by storing them in clear text instead of encrypting them. Security researchers at Imperva analyzed the findings and came up with some interesting findings, among them that the most popular password is “123456”, more »

If T-Mobile is trying to drive themselves out of business they are doing a pretty good job. First there was the great Sidekick Nightmare, which caused most U.S. users of the device to lose their data and the company to temporarily halt sales, and then a few weeks ago T-Mobile customers had to contend with more »

According to a report by CNET UK, thousands of login credentials for Hotmail, Yahoo, and Google accounts have been stolen and posted online. Since Google accounts also allow access to Blogger, YouTube, Google Docs and Google Talk accounts, the potential data breach is huge as are the possible repercussions. Google is blaming a large scale more »

The hacker accused of running a massive data theft operation responsible for breaches at TJ Maxx, BJ’s Wholesales, and several other major U.S. retailers has pleaded guilty to 19 charges related to credit card fraud and and hacking and 1 charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. “Computer hacking and identity theft pose serious risks more »

Three men have been indicted in what federal authorities are calling the largest identity theft case ever prosecuted. The three men are accused of hacking into the files of Heartland Payment Systems between October 2006 and May 2008. Heartland processes debit and credit card payment for over a quarter of a million businesses. Some of the breaches occurred at 7-Eleven and Hannaford Brothers and at least 650 financial institutions were affected.

LexisNexis has sent a warning to over 13,000 people after discovering a possible data breach. The information broker says that a Florida man facing charges in a mafia racketeering conspiracy may have accessed some databases that used to be used to track terrorists. The man, Lee Klein, is said to be part of the Bonanno more »

A new data breach discovered by payment processor Heartland Payment Systems may be the largest one ever. The company processes payments for over a quarter of a million businesses and says tens of millions of credit and debit card transactions may have been compromised. Malware was found on its network and officials say it was recording payment data sent to the company from its retail clients. Sensitive information such as credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates and names were stolen. While a hacked system at one of its retail clients is likely to blame for the breach, Heartland has refused to name which client it might be or even what retailers may have been affected.