Experian/Court Ventures/InfoSearch identity theft lawsuit remanded to state...
On Friday, U.S. District Judge James Selna sent a lawsuit against Experian, Court Ventures, and InfoSearch back to Orange County Superior Court, denying the defendants’ motion to dismiss outright. The...
View ArticleWoman Claims Rapist Found Her Through Car Dealership
This may be one for the “small breach, big harm” files. Robert Kovacik and Mary Harris report on a lawsuit in Los Angeles filed by a woman who alleges that her rapist got her address and information...
View ArticleKY: Business Owner Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud For Stealing $809,205.43 From...
Did no one check their bank statements to see that they were having deductions made that they hadn’t approved? Or did they? Mark Allen Hartley, the owner of Patriot Computers, a Virginia corporation,...
View ArticleBesa Mafia: Hitman For Hire Site Hacked, Data Dumped
RiskBased Security writes: News reports of websites being hacked and data being leaked has become an all too common occurrence. Most of the press focuses on popular or well known sites, rarely touching...
View ArticleDouble whammy: Avention investigating two data breaches involving employee info
Massachusetts-based Avention, formerly known as OneSource Solutions, is investigating two recent data breaches that may, or may not, be the work of the same criminal(s). In a letter to the New...
View ArticleNostalgic for a backup drive breach? Here it is…
The days of backup drives with unencrypted information being stolen from unattended vehicles is not totally a thing of the past. On April 26, New Hampshire Distributors, LLC notified the state attorney...
View ArticleNulled.io crime forum breach could cause a world of pain for members
Dan Goodin reports: A website that openly facilitated the brokering of compromised passwords, stolen bitcoins, and other sensitive data has been hacked, exposing login data, IP addresses, e-mail...
View ArticleTalentbuddy.co / Talentguide.co Database Exposed, Company Reacts Swiftly
Another day, another misconfigured MongoDB database installation. This one, uncovered by RiskBased Security, involved Udemy‘s Talentbuddy.co. RBS writes: In total, there have been 38,791 users accounts...
View ArticleAU: CabCharge Data Exposed, Still Waiting For A Response Much Like Their...
RiskBased Security reports that although it notified CabCharge of a misconfigured database leaking customer information and CabCharge seems to have taken steps to secure the data, CabCharge has neither...
View ArticleIntermedix data breach class action case dismissed
Linn Foster Freedman has an update to the Intermedix data breach litigation filed last year: On May 3, 2016, the parties to the suit agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice with no payment of...
View ArticlePatient appointment booking service notifying patients of potential breach
Zocdoc, an online booking system for dental or medical appointments, is first notifying patients almost one year after they learned programming errors enabled providers to access patient information...
View Article117 Million LinkedIn Emails And Passwords up for sale (Updated)
Lorenzo Franceschai-Bicchierai reports: A hacker is trying to sell the account information, including emails and passwords, of 117 million LinkedIn users. The hacker, who goes by the name “Peace,” told...
View ArticleGatecoin CEO Reveals $2 Million Loss in Hacking Incident
Traderman reports: On Saturday, Gatecoin CEO Aurélien Menant, released a statement that details the nature of the hack and how the exchange managed to lose 15% of client’s digital currency deposits....
View ArticleHouse lifts block on Google-hosted apps, Yahoo Mail remains blacklisted
Dustin Volz reports: The U.S. House of Representatives’ information technology team this week reinstated access on its internet network to software applications hosted on a Google cloud service after...
View ArticleUtah man accused of hacking United Airlines
Meredith Cunningham reports: New details have come to light regarding the 2012 incident where a hacker was able to steal travel vouchers from the United Airlines website, then turn around and sell them...
View ArticleAustralia: 13,000+ User Accounts Leaked From Fairfax Media Because…. SQLi
I knew if I waited a day, Lee Johnstone would analyze the data and make some sense of it for us. 🙂 RiskBasedSecurity reports: It’s become cliche for news articles about data breaches to begin with:...
View ArticleChildren’s Educational Site Exposes Thousands of User Accounts and Payment Data
Another child-oriented site has exposed information due to a misconfigured MongoDB installation. This time, it’s ABCya.com, according to the MacKeeper security research team. Here’s what they reported...
View ArticleNoodles & Company Probes Breach Claims
Brian Krebs reports: Noodles & Company, a fast-casual restaurant chain with more than 500 stores in 35 U.S. states, says it has hired outside investigators to probe reports of a credit card breach...
View ArticleCourt rejects Jetro’s argument in attempt to recoup fines and penalties over...
Long-time readers will remember the Restaurant Depot/Jetro breaches reported in 2011 and 2012. It appears that Jetro tried a novel approach to recovering some of the monies the breach cost them. As...
View ArticleInsider breach – Shapeshift’s story
@SwiftonSecurity kept telling everyone on Twitter that we #MUSTREAD the story of what happened at Shapeshift.io. And with good reason: it’s a phenomenal account of an insider breach told with the kind...
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