Hacker takes off with TripAdvisor's customer email database  

Hacker takes off with TripAdvisor's customer email database

In Crypto - By Nate Cochrane, 24 March 2011 11:58 PM
Personal details for as many as 20 million travellers in the wind.
Lush customer details stolen by hackers 

Lush customer details stolen by hackers

In Risk - By Brett Winterford, Jennifer Scott, 24 January 2011 10:58 AM
Credit card details stolen.
Telstra assures security on remote IT support 

Telstra assures security on remote IT support

In Web/client - 26 October 2010 3:23 PM
New way to configure devices.
CBA's NZ bank Facebooks customer service  

CBA's NZ bank Facebooks customer service

In Cloud - By Liam Tung, 14 September 2010 9:15 AM
Goes beyond publishing.
Westfield customer details exposed in data breach 

Westfield customer details exposed in data breach

In Risk - By Brett Winterford, 12 August 2010 9:23 AM
Notifies Bondi customers in show of good faith.
Durex leak reveals customer details 

Durex leak reveals customer details

In Risk - By Dan Raywood, 1 April 2010 4:15 PM
Condom vendor exposes customers.
Symantec falls as Romanian hacker strikes again 

Symantec falls as Romanian hacker strikes again

In Web/client - By Phil Muncaster, 24 November 2009 9:28 AM
SQL injection attack exposes customer data.
Retailers indicted in US$22m identity theft fraud 

Retailers indicted in US$22m identity theft fraud

In Risk - By Iain Thomson, 25 August 2009 3:33 PM
AT&T and T-Mobile get stung for million.
Mozilla Store users suffer data breach 

Mozilla Store users suffer data breach

In Web/client - By Phil Muncaster, 7 August 2009 10:03 AM
Change user names and passwords immediately.
McAfee sends out personal details in email 

McAfee sends out personal details in email

In Risk - By Ben Grubb, 30 July 2009 9:23 AM
Details of 1400 Australian security professionals leaked.
NAB deploys voice recognition for phone banking 

NAB deploys voice recognition for phone banking

In Risk - 23 June 2009 9:23 AM
Telstra wins integration and support contract.
Symantec and McAfee pay out US$375,000 for fee abuse 

Symantec and McAfee pay out US$375,000 for fee abuse

In Web/client - By Iain Thomson, 11 June 2009 11:09 AM
Two of the world’s biggest security software vendors have settled a case brought by New York State over billing customers without their consent.
T-Mobile confirms hack but doubts crooks have the goods 

T-Mobile confirms hack but doubts crooks have the goods

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 10 June 2009 3:00 PM
T-Mobile has confirmed that hackers were able to swipe data from its systems, but the wireless carrier is downplaying the threat to customers.
Banks instructed to take greater care over data in turbulent times 

Banks instructed to take greater care over data in turbulent times

In Risk - By Dan Raywood, 30 October 2008 9:49 AM
Secerno has warned banks to take tighter control over customer data.
Bank of New York loses 12.5 million customer details 

Bank of New York loses 12.5 million customer details

In Risk - By Iain Thomson, 1 September 2008 10:05 AM
The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has admitted that the number of its customers hit by a data breach was much larger than previously stated.
HSBC loses customer data 

HSBC loses customer data

By Rosalie Marshall, 8 April 2008 8:50 AM
HSBC has lost a disc containing details of 370,000 of its customers, in an incident which will raise further questions about firms' data security policies.
Amazon wins customer privacy battle 

Amazon wins customer privacy battle

In Risk - By Iain Thomson, 29 November 2007 10:09 AM
The FBI has been slammed in a court ruling after attempting to get Amazon to hand over details on its customers and their reading habits.
Study: Half of online pharmacies fail to secure customer data 

Study: Half of online pharmacies fail to secure customer data

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 21 August 2007 7:30 AM
More than half of all online pharmacies are failing to encrypt their customer data, exposing consumers to identity theft and credit-card fraud, new figures show.
Paymate expands Australian clients 

Paymate expands Australian clients

In Risk - By Negar Salek, 29 May 2007 7:00 AM
Paymate is set to expand its secure Internet payment service program, TrustMark, throughout the next 12 months.
Thousands of UK's Halifax customer details stolen 

Thousands of UK's Halifax customer details stolen

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 28 March 2007 12:12 AM
Thousands of Halifax customer details have been stolen following the theft of a briefcase from an employee's car last week.
Banks cautioned over binned customer details 

Banks cautioned over binned customer details

In Crypto - By Fiona Raisbeck, 15 March 2007 4:08 PM
A dozen of the UK's leading banks have been accused of putting the security of potentially millions of customer's in jeopardy by dumping sensitive information in rubbish bins ...
Nationwide under fire for customer data loss 

Nationwide under fire for customer data loss

In Hackers - By Clement James, 21 February 2007 10:10 AM
Nationwide Building Society could have easily and cheaply avoided the financial loss and reputation damage it suffered recently when one of its laptops containing the details ...
Major US clothing retailer hacked potentially affecting millions 

Major US clothing retailer hacked potentially affecting millions

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 18 January 2007 5:40 PM
A major clothing retailer announced Wednesday that hackers accessed its network and stole an unknown amount of credit card information.
Customer data stolen at Indian call centres 

Customer data stolen at Indian call centres

By Fiona Raisbeck, 4 October 2006 5:20 PM
Employees in outsourced call centres are stealing sensitive customer data and selling it on the black market, an investigation has found.
Ernst & Young laptop, Hotels.com customer info, stolen 

Ernst & Young laptop, Hotels.com customer info, stolen

By Dan Kaplan, 2 June 2006 10:04 PM
More than 240,000 Hotels.com customers are at risk for identity theft after an unencrypted laptop containing their personal information was stolen from the locked car of an ...
Marriott customer data missing 

Marriott customer data missing

By Frank Washkuch, 28 December 2005 8:31 PM
A division of the Marriott International hotel empire has notified more than 200,000 clients of back-up security tapes missing from the company’s Orlando corporate offices.
Sony faces customer rebellion after rootkit blunder  

Sony faces customer rebellion after rootkit blunder

By William Eazel, 16 November 2005 12:26 PM
Sony-BMG Music Entertainment's use of spyware techniques for copyright protection is only the latest example of a trend that will likely promote a “consumer backlash," industry ...
Verizon leaves customer data exposed 

Verizon leaves customer data exposed

By David Quainton, 12 August 2005 5:24 PM
Verizon website programmers have potentially put millions of customers personal data at risk.
Cyberattack exposes T-Mobile customer data  

Cyberattack exposes T-Mobile customer data

By Marcia Savage, 14 January 2005 11:50 PM
An attacker accessed the names and Social Security numbers of 400 T-Mobile USA customers and also investigative data on a U.S. Secret Service agent's personal PDA.
North Carolina retailer's customer card details hacked 

North Carolina retailer's customer card details hacked

By Steve Gold, 29 March 2004 4:53 PM
The North Carolina Attorney General's office has taken the unusual step of advising customers of BJ's Wholesale Club, a major retailer in the region, to monitor their credit ...
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