VTECH Hack Exposes Data on More Than 200,000 Kids and Almost 5M parents...
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The personal information of almost 5 million parents and more than 200,000 kids was exposed earlier this month after a hacker broke into the servers of a Chinese...
View ArticleSony Slapped With Negligence Suit By Ex-VP On Hacking Anniversary
It ain’t over ’til it’s over. Dominic Patten reports: A year to the day that Sony was ripped open by a massive hacking, the fallout continues from the public disclosure of private and corporate...
View ArticleNY: Blauvelt car salesman stole customer IDs: cops
Mike Donofrio reports that a car salesman employed at Rockland Nissan in Blauvelt has been arrested and charged with using customers’ information to open credit cards. Read more on LoHud.
View ArticleUK: Bluebox Broadband: 3,000 customers’ details published online
Angelique Lu reports: Details of more than 3,000 customers or potential customers of Bluebox Broadband have been published online. It is currently unknown who is responsible for the leak of names,...
View ArticlePrivate Internet Access notifies customers of IP Address Leak Vulnerability
If you use Private Internet Access, you should have a notification in your inbox. Here’s the text of the email they sent out today: Dear Valued Customer, On November 17, we were privately notified of...
View ArticleData Breach on VTech Learning Lodge (update)
Issued by VTECH today: VTech Holdings Limited noted that an unauthorized party accessed VTech customer data housed on our Learning Lodge app store database on 14 November 2015. Learning Lodge allows...
View ArticleAdele tickets: Fans claim personal data has been breached
BBC reports: Fans buying tickets for Adele’s tour have told the BBC they were shown the address and credit card details of customers other than themselves. Advance tickets were made available to...
View ArticleVTech hack included children’s pictures and chat logs (Update 1)
Lorenzo Franceshi-Bicchierai has a follow-up to his early report on VTECH: Over the weekend, the hacker, who asked to remain anonymous, told me that VTech left other sensitive data exposed on its...
View ArticleNM: Fired by Roadrunner, former employee allegedly took revenge by hacking...
Kirsten Swanson reports: A Rio Rancho man was arrested for hacking his old employers and posing as a technician, even after police say they charged him with a crime. Gordon Logan is accused of hacking...
View ArticleHome Depot reaches settlement agreement with MasterCard over data breach
David Allison reports: The Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) has reached a contingent settlement with MasterCard International Inc. over the home improvement giant’s massive 2014 data breach. The deal was...
View ArticleHacker sent ‘death to the Jews’ text messages after breach in phone network
Paul Farrell reports: A hacker attempted to send more than 4m text messages saying “death to the Jews” by exploiting the network of a global telecommunications company. A Guardian investigation has...
View ArticleTarget in $39.4 mln settlement with banks over data breach
Reuters reports: Target Corp has agreed to pay $39.4 million to resolve claims by banks that said they lost money because of the retailer’s late 2013 data breach. The preliminary settlement was filed...
View ArticleComputer company sues gaming establishment and its employees over alleged...
Vimbai Chikomo reports: The owner of a computer software company in Abita Springs is suing over claims of copyright infringement. On Nov. 9, Glenn Golden, the owner of G2 Database Marketing Inc.,...
View ArticleKalahari Resorts in Wisconsin and Ohio hit by payment card breach
From their notice of December 1 (and no, this isn’t related to the Starwood properties’ breach disclosed recently): Kalahari Resorts recently became aware of a possible security incident involving...
View ArticleThe Barbados Advocate defaced by “Muslim Electronic Army”
Nation News reports that The Barbados Advocate’s web site was defaced. Visitors to the site were reportedly greeted with a pop-up message from the “Muslim Electronic Army.” Then in a profanity-laced...
View ArticleUK: JD Wetherspoons discloses breach impacting 656,723 customers
Andrew Griffin reports: Wetherspoon’s has been hacked, potentially putting hundreds of thousands of its customers’ information at risk. The pub company said that 650,000 people might have had their...
View ArticleUK: Crash details sold by Aviva manager to cold callers
As I’ve reported in the past, Aviva has had a few data breaches involving insiders improperly accessing and then selling customer data. A rogue employee involved in such conduct back in 2012 and 2013...
View ArticleHackers Held Data on 5,000 Canadians Hostage and the Government Didn’t Tell...
Justin Ling reports: Last year, a clever piece of code grabbed the computers of a foreign company, and held them hostage — detaining information on 5,000 Canadian passport applicants in the process. It...
View ArticleIn: Five booked in online data theft case, bail denied
Following up on a case previously noted on this blog…. Nishikant Karlikar reports: The anticipatory bail plea filed by five former top executives of Naaptol, a home shopping firm, was rejected by the...
View ArticleLA: Radio station employee stole contest winner info, opened cable accounts:...
Michelle Hunter reports: Gretna police arrested an employee of a local radio station accused of stealing the personal information of listeners who won prizes and using the data to open cable accounts...
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