Archive for April, 2011

Sony PlayStation suffers massive data breach

(Reuters) – Sony suffered a massive breach in its video game online network that led to the theft of names, addresses and possibly credit card data belonging to 77 million user accounts in what is one of the largest-ever Internet security break-ins. Sony learned that user information had been stolen from its PlayStation Network seven […]

Brooklyn jury hears morbid ID theft case

Irina Malezhik was ending an assignment as a Russian-language translator at a law office in 2004 when she asked an innocent but fateful question: Could anyone offer a lift to Brooklyn? The man who obliged by chance, authorities say, was a stranger named Dmitriy Yakovlev. He says she later began tutoring him in English and […]

Epsilon Security Breach Exposes Consumer Information

Internet marketing giant Epsilon suffered a major data breach over the weekend, as names and email addresses were stolen in a series of hacking attacks affecting at least 19 of its client companies. In a statement to its clients, Epsilon assured that highly sensitive information had not been stolen by hackers. “The information that was […]