Delco contractor hijacks website, steals thousands for project he didn’t...
Daniel Craig reports: A Delaware County contractor is being accused of stealing thousands of dollars from homeowners for a project he never started and illegally taking over a website he was hired to...
View ArticleEarbits.com Leaks 325,000 User Credentials: Misconfigured Database
DataBreaches.net seems to have lost a source, but gained a resource. Chris Vickery is now blogging his discoveries over on MacKeeper. His first post was about a misconfigured database leaking 325,000...
View ArticleTW: Siliconware Precision Industries engineer probed over suspected data theft
Julian Ho and Jessie Shen report: Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau has received a request from Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) to investigate an engineer suspected of stealing confidential company...
View ArticleAU: Telstra privacy breach leaves customer’s voicemail exposed
Hannah Francis reports: When it was time to upgrade to the latest iPhone, Richard Thornton did what he had done many times before. He wiped his old iPhone 5 with a factory reset, removed the SIM card,...
View ArticleNest Thermostats Leaked User Data But Don’t Freak Out Quite Yet
Bryan Lufkin reports: It’s no secret that connected home devices are riddled with security concerns. A recent investigation into Nest thermostats leaking user data onto the internet seemed especially...
View ArticleIn: Sector V fights cyber-crime stain; TalkTalk customers scammed by rogue...
Dwaipayan Ghosh reports: The arrest of two Wipro employees following the crackdown on an international data theft racket has sent shockwaves across Salt Lake Sector V, the IT hub of Bengal. Though many...
View ArticleCa: NWT Power Corporation apologizes for customer data breach
CBC News reports: The Northwest Territories Power Corporation has sent a letter to its customers telling them about a data security breach involving their personal information earlier this month. The...
View ArticleFlorida couple ran tax service and check cashing business to acquire identity...
Once again, a reminder that the local business you trust with your tax or bank account information may not be worthy of your trust. A Pembroke Pines, Florida, couple pleaded guilty for conspiring to...
View ArticleAmazon accused of handing out its users’ personal data
Daniel Cooper reports: Eric Springer is not happy, mostly because he believes that Amazon let a nefarious type get at his account. In a blog over at Medium, Springer revealed that he was the victim of...
View ArticleSCOTUS upholds Musacchio’s convictions for hacking former employer
Dan McCue reports on the Musacchio case: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the felony convictions of a former executive with a technology firm who unlawfully hacked his employer’s computers to...
View ArticleGSK Scientists Indicted For Allegedly Stealing Biopharmaceutical Trade Secrets
Another insider breach, this one involving GlaxoSmithKline, was announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Eastern Pennsylvania last week: An indictment was filed charging five people in an alleged...
View ArticleDocuments with Social Security numbers found in Albuquerque dumpster
KOAT reports: It’s tax season, and that means a lot of sensitive information is getting printed on a lot of pieces of paper. Action 7 News found some of that paper just lying in an Albuquerque...
View ArticleHackers have stolen €50 million from an aerospace parts manufacturer
Lewis Morgan writes: Yes, €50 million. Aerospace parts manufacturer FACC posted a notice on its website last week stating, “the financial accounting department of FACC Operations GmbH was the target of...
View ArticleWendy’s Investigating Reports of Credit Card Breach
Brian Krebs writes: Wendy’s, the nationwide chain of fast-food restaurants, says it is investigating claims of a possible credit card breach at some locations. The acknowledgment comes in response to...
View ArticleImportant Information for cPanel Store Users
January 23, 2016 Dear customers, I am writing to let you know that one of our user databases may have been breached. Although we successfully interrupted the breach, it is still possible that user...
View ArticleTalkTalk call centre staff manacled over security breach
Kelly Fiveash reports: TalkTalk has turned three workers—based at a call centre provider in India—over to the police, as part of its ongoing investigation into the budget ISP’s security practices,...
View ArticleBoy arrested over TalkTalk hacking settles case against Twitter
Alan Erwin reports: A Co Antrim schoolboy arrested over the cyberattack on TalkTalk has settled his claim for damages against Twitter. The 15-year-old’s privacy action was resolved on confidential...
View ArticleTW: MJIB launches investigation into info leak case, finds alleged mole
The China Post reports: The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) launched investigations into a subsidiary of P-Two Industries on Friday following accusations of confidential information...
View ArticleUpdate: Former worker accused of stealing companies’ data fined $2,000 and...
There’s an update to a court case that I noted on this site in April, 2015, when Thomas A. Wotring, was arrested and indicted on charges he accessed a protected computer on or about July 11, 2012,...
View ArticleJudge Refuses to Dismiss Neiman Marcus Data Breach Class Action
Christina Davis reports: Neiman Marcus Group LLC has lost a bid to toss a class action alleging that the retail clothing chain’s negligence caused a massive data security breach and then hid the...
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