Daniel Emery reports the latest in a breach that started when a U.K. law firm pursuing file-sharers was hit with a DDoS attack as part of “Operation: Payback is a Bitch.” During the process of recovery from the attack, the firm leaked sensitive e-mail on the web concerning thousands of adult porn viewers who had…
Category: Breaches
Kr: Indictments filed over smartphone privacy
Lee Chul-jae and Ser Myo-ja report: Two companies and two of their officials were indicted yesterday on charges of illegally collecting personal information about customers through a software application for smartphones. According to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, indictments were filed against TomatoTV, the distributor of the smartphone application, and its developer, Semaphore Solutions…
Woman sues debt collector for contacting her family via Facebook
Curtis Krueger reports: Melanie Beacham is on Facebook, the social networking site “that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.”Unfortunately for her, those “others” include bill collectors. Beacham, 34, of St. Petersburg, said she already had called her car finance company last summer to let people know she was…
Palin hacker’s verdict stands
Jamie Satterfield reports: A federal judge has shot down a former University of Tennessee student’s bid to have tossed out convictions in the illegal access of Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account during the 2008 presidential election. Although U.S. District Judge Thomas Phillips’ ruling, issued Thursday, paves the way for David C. Kernell to be sentenced next…