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When you consider the widespread impact of data breaches at Epsilon and Sony PlayStation, it’s not surprising that customers are more cautious about conducting business with certain financial institutions and retailers. According to a new survey, “80% of Americans, 81% of Britons, and 83% of Australians who have personal medical information are concerned about moving that data to an electronic form because of the risks of identity theft or invasion of privacy resulting from this information being exposed on the Internet.” Read More
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emailWould You Purchase a ‘Cyber Risk’ Insurance Policy?
Posted on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
Do you know whether your current business insurance policy — or that of your boss – covers you if you pass along a virus or other type of malware, even unknowingly? What if you are accused of libeling another company in a blog, email, or on a social media network? That’s one of the reasons insurance companies have gotten into the game. Read More
Pop Quiz: Easy Way to Test Whether Your Email Has Been Stolen by Sony Hackers
Posted on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
If you haven’t taken a moment to determine whether your Sony account, Gmail, or PayPal accounts have been compromised, check out the simple tool on tech site Gizmodo.com. Just type in your email address and it will check for you.
New Sony Hack: One Million Passwords, Emails, Birthdates Exposed
Posted on Monday, June 6th, 2011
A hacking group call “LulzSec” has attacked SonyPictures.com and compromised more than one-million user passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts. The group also compromised administrative details of Sony Pictures, including passwords, along with 75,000 music codes and 3.5 million music coupons. The Associated Press reports the hacking group “ridiculed Sony for the ease with which it stole the data, saying that the company stored peoples’ passwords in a simple text file — something it called disgraceful and insecure.” This new attack follows Sony’s massive security breach last month that compromised more than 100-million user accounts. Read More
A Timeline of Sony’s PlayStation Data Breach
Posted on Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
The Last Watchdog, an Internet security blog, has a fascinating timeline of events affecting Sony’s customers since April 20, when PlayStation first experienced its network outage. By May 2, the PlayStation breach had extended to Sony Online Entertainment. In addition to the timeline, there is also an interesting interview with a security expert who cautions that hacking is not going away for large companies, and “the first to fall will be those environments that failed to exercise reasonable risk management.”
Poll: Is Sony’s Compensation For Identity Theft Victims Adequate?
Posted on Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Take this poll on CNET and share your opinions in the wake of the month-long Sony PlayStation massive data breach and subsequent outage. Do you feel that Sony has taken adequate steps to protect and/or compensate customers? Are you interested in its identity theft offerings, or are you more impressed with Sony’s offer to give lifetime subscribers “20,000 coins for Free Realms, 7,500 Galactic Credits for Clone Wars Adventures, and 10 Marks of Distinction for DC Universe Online?”
Dealing With Third Hack Attack, Sony Offers Weak Help to More Than 100 Million Customers
Posted on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
Sony has announced a free 12-month identity-theft prevention program for PlayStation Network users. The monitoring company, Debix, Inc., requires your credit-card information during that “free trial.” Is it worth it to you? Will you remember to cancel in time, or would you be willing to pay $10 per month for this service? This is simply up to each individual user to decide for themselves, but as hackers have attacked Sony for the third time in less than a month, identity-theft woes heat up globally. Read More
Credit and Financial Data Exposed For 23,000 Users in Second Data Breach at Sony
Posted on Friday, May 6th, 2011
Sony has shut down its Sony Online Entertainment after admitting to a second massive breach affecting the company — this time, cybercriminals have made off with the credit card, debit card, and financial data of more than 23,000 users of the network. Despite the misfortune affecting the company, the Financial Times says Sony should not be faulted for discovering the second breach more than a week after the first “because the two online gaming networks share few resources and had separate security structures.
Sony’s PlayStation Data Theft and Your Online Security, By the Numbers
Posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
Serious data breaches at both Sony and Epsilon have allowed hackers to steal millions of customers’ personal details in the past month alone. If you own a Sony PlayStation network, hackers now know your name, your home address, your email address, your birthday, and your PlayStation password and login name. That’s a lot of data now in the hands of crooks. Check out this summary of the Sony data theft and how it affects you, by the numbers. Read More
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PlayStation Hackers Might Have Details of 2.2 Million Credit Cards
Posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
Some of the 77-million PlayStation users caught up in last week’s massive hack attack have been reporting fraudulent charges on their credit cards, though Sony has not been able to confirm a direct connection with its large-scale security breach. This article in The Guardian says some of the claims “include the equivalent of $1,500 spent in a German grocery store on an American credit card, and dozens of people reporting charges on items such as German airline tickets and Japanese stores.” Kevin Stevens, a security analyst with Trend Micro, said the hackers might have details on 2.2 million credit cards – and the hackers may have offered to sell the database back to Sony, but that the company declined it.