The attacker was able to access all data from 2007 and prior, including credentials and email addresses, as well as a database backup, which contained user data from 2005, when the site launched, through May 2007.
A server containing a database holding customer information pertaining to various U.K.-based online fashion retailers was discovered to be insecure after it was breached by a white-hat hacker on July 9.
Talk about excessive tardiness: Yale University yesterday disclosed that more than 10 years ago, an online intruder breached one of the Ivy League school's databases, which contained information on alumni, faculty and staff members.
Symantec's ID theft prevention subsidiary LifeLock suffered from some embarrassing optics on Wednesday after it was reported that an error in its e-marketing unsubscribe process left the email addresses of its customers exposed to potential data theft and tampering.
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