ME: Data breach at Brunswick hotel possibly exposes cards of 2,600
Darren Fishell reports: Malware on a computer at the Brunswick Hotel and Tavern exposed names and credit card information for as many as 2,600 guests who stayed at the hotel between November 2014 and...
View ArticleSettlement reached in ex-Sony employees’ lawsuit over data breach – lawyers
We won’t have any details until mid-October, but AP reports that lawyers for former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees who sued SPE over a data breach have reached a settlement with their former...
View ArticleAshley Madison hack miscreants may have earned $6,400 from leak
John Leyden reports: Some blackmail attempts against victims of the ongoing Ashley Madison saga resulted in several – albeit modest – pay outs, according to new research. […] An unknown group or...
View ArticleThe Black-eyed Pea parent, Paymentech go to court over handling of data breach
Danielle Abril reports: The parent company of The Black-eyed Pea and Paymentech are caught up in a 2-year-old legal battle over a data breach that allegedly occurred three years ago. Oddly, the...
View ArticleReverbNation notifies users of breach, recommends changing passwords
Adam Greenberg reports: ReverbNation – an online platform that currently assists more than three million musicians in building their careers – experienced a breach in 2014, and is now notifying an...
View ArticleOoredoo data breach brings legal action
Catherine Trautwein reports: An Ooredoo Myanmar employee that gave out a customer’s call log has been fired, with the company still pursuing legal action through Mandalay police. The June breach...
View ArticleFormer Tesla employee charged with hacking ex-boss’ computer
Kale Williams reports: A former Tesla employee has been indicted on charges of felony computer hacking after a federal investigation found he allegedly broke into his boss’ computer and posted employee...
View ArticleEBay Disclosed Sellers’ Personal Information to Bidders, Will Change Practice
Sarah Messer reports: EBay is the online marketplace for 25 million sellers, but did you know that when you signed up you gave the company permission to disclose your personal information to your...
View ArticleMozilla says hacker compromised Bugzilla and used stolen ‘security-sensitive’...
Emil Protalinsky reports: Mozilla today detailed a security attack on its bugtracker and testing tool Bugzilla, and the steps it is taking to mitigate a repeat incident. In short, a hacker compromised...
View ArticleCredit card information stolen at gas stations
I’m seeing a rash of reports involving card skimmers at gas stations, most of which I’m not posting to this blog. Here are two such reports as examples, though: Michigan State Police and the Ionia...
View ArticleAshley Madison users sue Amazon Web Services, GoDaddy, and web site operators
Three John Doe plaintiffs who were paying customers of AshleyMadison.com have sued Amazon Web Services, GoDaddy, and unnamed John Roe web site owners/operators who created sites allowing people to...
View ArticleCredentials stored in Ashley Madison’s source code might have helped attackers
Lucian Constantin reports that ongoing examination of the AshleyMadison source code data dump contains evidence that ALM was er…. sloppy: … A London-based security consultant named Gabor Szathmari has...
View ArticleIt Was A HOAX! Evidence Shows Ashley Madison Hacker Statements, Details Were...
So… was the claimed Ashley Madison breach a hoax? Gina Smith argues that it was. Or she’s pulling her own hoax to see how susceptible journalists are. So far, she hasn’t really presented any evidence...
View ArticlePastor outed on Ashley Madison commits suicide
CNN reports: John Gibson was a pastor and seminary professor. When he wasn’t teaching at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, one of his favorite pastimes was fixing cars. He was married with two...
View ArticleNC: Hair meant for donations to kids with cancer found in dumpster with...
The Gaston Gazette reports that hair donated to support Wigs for Kids, a charity in Ohio supporting kids battling cancer, was tossed out in North Carolina – along with the donors’ personal information:...
View ArticleWhatsApp security flaw could have hijacked users’ computers, just by knowing...
Graham Cluley writes: We all know that the WhatsApp messaging service is available for smartphones – there are hundreds of millions of mobile users of the service. But some people want to have WhatsApp...
View ArticleAshleyMadison Said to Be Insured by Axis, AIG
Sonali Basak, Gerrit De Vynck, and Tracy Alloway report: American International Group Inc. and Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. are among insurers for the company that owns AshleyMadison.com, the adultery...
View ArticleMore TransformPOS clients possibly affected by security incident?
Here we go….? On Sept. 1, this blog noted a breach involving a TransformPOS client in Illinois. The client, Village Pizza & Pub, says they learned of the breach on July 27th. Now there may be...
View ArticleIn: Woman arrested for hacking into ex-employer’s computers
NewKerala.com reports: A 30-year-old woman was arrested on Wednesday for hacking and destroying data on her ex-employer company’s computers, police said. The former employer was not named in the...
View ArticleOnce seen as bulletproof, 11 million+ Ashley Madison passwords already cracked
Dan Goodin reports: When the Ashley Madison hackers leaked close to 100 gigabytes’ worth of sensitive documents belonging to the online dating service for people cheating on their romantic partners,...
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