American Fidelity Notifies Customers of Possible Data Disclosure
A press release from American Fidelity Assurance: American Fidelity recently learned of an incident that involves personal information of some of our Customers. The information did not include Social...
View ArticleCBS had data leak during March Madness: Security firm
Jessica Golden reports: CBS Sports may have exposed more than just your busted March Madness bracket. Mobile data management and security firm Wandera said it found a data leak on the CBS Sports app...
View ArticleSome Coinroll users report balances stolen
On April 11, Coinroll.com issued the following statement on their site: 11 Apr 2016 Security Audit Dear players, lately some users claimed theft of their balance on Coinroll. We are aware of that and...
View ArticleJournalist gets two years in prison for hacking L.A.Times computers
Denny Walsh reports: Matthew Keys, whose rapid rise as a social media news reporter began and ended in Sacramento, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on a jury’s verdict in October that he...
View ArticleDocuments containing personal information found in lot
KTRK in Texas reports that Megatel Builders is denying claims about what was in documents found outside a model home: League City police are investigating exactly what was in paperwork left beside a...
View ArticleKY: Documents Containing Personal Info Found Outside Payday Loan Business
Thousands of documents containing personal and financial information were found unshredded and scattered behind the Money Now payday loan business on Taylor Boulevard. Boxes of financial records were...
View ArticleLizard Squad claims responsibility Blizzard DDoS attack; employee personal...
US Blizzard #Offline – WoW #Offline, Diablo 3 #Offline, Starcraft 2 #Offline, Hearthstone #Offline @fbiarelosers @AppleJ4ckxoxo — Lizard Squad (@LizardLands) April 14, 2016 EU Blizzard #Offline – WoW...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit revives data breach lawsuit against P.F. Chang’s
Samantha Bomkamp reports that the Seventh Circuit has done it again when it comes to allowing data breach lawsuits to go forward: A lawsuit over a 2014 data breach at P.F. Chang’s has been revived by...
View ArticleRI: ABC6 Personnel Record Breach Leads to State Police Investigation, 4 Fired...
GoLocalProv reports: A breach of highly confidential personnel records at ABC6 has lead to an investigation by the Rhode Island State Police, the firing for four members of the news organization and...
View ArticleHack of ShapeShift Bitcoin Trader Was Inside Job, Says CEO
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Last week we reported on a data breach that forced Bitcoin trader ShapeShift to temporarily shut down operations. In an update provided on Reddit, ShapeShift CEO, Erik...
View ArticleUS jury fines Tata Consultancy Services $940m for healthcare software ‘theft’
Speaking of a contractor’s employees exceeding authorized access, Chidanand Rajghatta reports that a Wisconsin federal jury slapped a $940-million penalty, including $700 million in punitive damages,...
View ArticleThe Individual Who Hacked Hacking Team Explains How
We live in confusing times when those whom society brands as “criminals” are more ethical than their victims. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai writes: Back in July of last year, the controversial...
View ArticleYahoo’s FX broker YJFX updates on data breach incident
Maria Nikolova reports a follow-up to a previously reported incident involving YJFX: The analysis has shown that 185,626 pieces of information were taken out. 128,220 pieces of information were in a...
View ArticleMy realtor’s email was hacked and I’m out $2M: exec’s suit
This is like the third case I can recall like this. Julia Marsh reports: A former Lehman Brothers executive unwittingly wired a $2 million deposit for a $20 million Manhattan apartment to cyber...
View ArticleEPIC Defends Right of PayTime Data Breach Victims to Bring Suit
EPIC.org is joining those who believe that victims of the PayTime data breach should not have had their lawsuit dismissed for lack of standing. EPIC has filed an amicus urging a federal appeals court...
View ArticleAU: CompTIA apologizes after email privacy blunder
Tony Yoo reports: Industry group CompTIA has apologised for exposing the contact details of at least a thousand Australian members this month. CRN has sighted from multiple sources mass emails sent on...
View ArticleUK: Worker stole customers’ personal details from Tesco database
STV provides an update to a previously noted breach. A Tesco worker stole customers’ personal details from the supermarket giant’s database. Thomas Wengierow admitted a charge under the Data Protection...
View ArticleTampa International Airport infosecurity breach spurred probe
Yvette C. Hammett reports: A consultant working to upgrade Tampa International Airport’s computer system last year caused concern among some airport employees about a potentially serious security...
View ArticleMillions of porn accounts for sale on dark web
Looks like I missed a breach report from weeks ago. Troy Hunt writes: Today I’ve been looking at the Naughty America data breach which was in the news 10 days ago. The breach itself is dated March 14...
View ArticleBeautifulPeople.com Leaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters —...
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Sexual preference. Relationship status. Income. Address. These are just some details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply...
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