A warning tonight for Facebook users. Hackers stole one man's online password and his identity. They changed his Facebook page to say he was in trouble and then hit up his friends for money.
Catina Dailey, who says she has 695 friends on Facebook, has taken steps to try and stay safe. "Only a few people have access to my pictures and I change my password once a month," says Dailey.
Employees at federal security agencies are being notified that their personal information may have been compromised after hackers planted a virus on computer networks of government contractor SRA International.
THE personal details of job seekers were not compromised when hackers accessed a NSW government jobs website, an investigation has found. The Department of Commerce, which administers jobs.nsw.gov.au, was forced to shut down the service last week after it was found hackers had targeted the site.
British news site The Sunday Telegraph stirred up privacy advocates by reporting Facebook’s plan to sell user data to companies looking to do faster market research. Facebook tells WebProNews The Telegraph got it all wrong.
The article ran with the headline “Networking site cashes in on friends,” and a teaser below saying Facebook had found a way to profit from members’ private data. The article described the development of “one of the world’s largest market research databases,” which would launch this spring.
More than 17,000 files containing the personal details of refugees and their families have been lost by the government, plunging the asylum system into chaos.
The names, dates of birth, passport numbers and addresses of people applying to stay in Britain as well as details of their children are believed to be among the documents. In many cases, applicants have had to begin the process again, while still unable to work or claim benefits.
Monster.com is advising its users to change their passwords after data including e-mail addresses, names and phone numbers were stolen from its database.
The break-in comes just as the swelling ranks of the unemployed are turning to sites like Monster.com to look for work.
On December 16th 2008, Time Magazine announced the annual People Of the Year List. Barack Obama topped the list, and one runner-up was China's Zhang Yimou, the epic filmmaker and Olympic impresario, for creating "arguably the grandest spectacle of the new millennium," the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games, which "showcased the rise of China as a world power."
Personal information including Social Security numbers of about 450 current and former University of Rochester students was stolen by hackers this week from a UR database.
According to the university, the information was taken from a non-academic student database and copied illegally to an off-campus IP address. The breach was discovered by school officials on Wednesday. An investigation is continuing.
The oversize white envelope bore the blue logo of the Department of Homeland Security. Inside, I found 20 photocopies of the government's records on my international travels. Every overseas trip I've taken since 2001 was noted.
I had requested the files after I had heard that the government tracks "passenger activity." Starting in the mid-1990s, many airlines handed over passenger records. Since 2002, the government has mandated that the commercial airlines deliver this information routinely and electronically.
Last month the first of seven centers due to issue ID cards for all non-EU nationals opened for business. Voluntary ID cards will be available to young people from early 2010 and to the rest of the country by the end of the year. In 2010 anyone renewing their passport will be required to provide biometric information and will automatically be entered onto the National Identity Register (NIR). By 2017 the Home Office intends that ID cards be compulsory for all citizens. Those who refuse will be fined up to £2,500.
