Capital One Latest Victim in Series of Attacks on U.S. Banks

Capital One Financial Corp. told Bloomberg’s Businessweek that its online banking services had been temporarily disabled on Tuesday but that no customer and account information was ever at risk. The ‘Mrt. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters’ took credit for the attack on the text-sharing site...

Data Breaches for All

Sony’s online gaming platform, The PlayStation Network PSN, disappeared for more than a month starting in April, and no amount of double X and O-ing or right joysticking could save it. The reason? A massive attack on PSN’s network knocked the gaming giant offline and exposed the data of more than...

Anonymous Targets Capital One, Wal-Mart, Viral Video Judge William Adams, and More

It was a busy weekend for the shadowy collective of Internet hackers and activists that calls itself Anonymous, with claims by the group to have launched attacks that took down the Web pages of both government- and private sector Web sites as well as public- and Internet personalities, including...

Epsilon Data Breach Expands to Include Capital One, Disney, Others

The compromise of a system at online marketing company Epsilon Data Management that came to light last week and involves the email addresses and names of customers at companies such as Citibank, Kroger and Disney expanded over the weekend to include a slew of other companies. The attack does not...