To the anonymous researchers who contacted me
Several weeks ago, I reported that some researchers had contacted me anonymously to give me a slew of vulnerabilities they had uncovered in their research. As a result of the FBI’s over-the-top raid on...
View ArticleMonsanto Says Worker Stole Data
Jacob Bunge reports: Monsanto Co. sued a former computer programmer, alleging he stole proprietary files after resigning to explore a job at a Chinese seed company. The lawsuit comes as the agriculture...
View ArticleCa: Empire Life notifies customers of data breach
I don’t understand: if they detected and responded to this phishing incident in November, 2015, why are they first issuing this statement now? June 17, 2016 (Toronto, Ontario) – The Empire Life...
View ArticleCa: 77K accounts of Financial Giant, State Farm, leaked due to DAC Group Hack
Ryan de Souza reports: DAC Group, a Toronto-based digital & content marketing agency has suffered a security breach on their server resulting in data theft of 93,000 customer accounts — In normal...
View ArticleSour grapes? Santikos sues former San Antonio vendor in phone hacking case
Patrick Danner reports: Santikos Theaters Inc. is suing CBS Telephone & Data after the former vendor allegedly sought revenge for a canceled contract by hacking into the movie house’s computerized...
View ArticleIn: Sec V techie held for data theft
Dwaipayan Ghosh reports: Kolkata: A BTech engineer working in a Sector V firm was arrested by the Bidhannagar cyber fraud wing for allegedly cheating on the US-based clients of another city-based IT...
View ArticleCarbonite forces password reset after password reuse attack
Should a company force an entire user password reset proactively because some users’ credentials, obtained elsewhere, are being used to attempt to steal their data? Carbonite, a provider of online...
View ArticleCA: Peninsula Dry-Cleaner Facing 8 Years In Prison for ID Theft, Fraud:...
Patch reports: An owner of a Menlo Park dry cleaning business is facing up to eight years in state prison after pleading no contest Friday to numerous charges of felony identity theft and fraud,...
View ArticleChinese businessman gets nearly 4 years in prison for US hacking case
Updating a case originally reported in March. Steven Musil reports: A Chinese businessman has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for conspiring to hack the computer systems of Boeing and...
View ArticleIslam-based #EscortsOffline campaign continues to leak users’ data
For about one year now, I’ve been covering the hacktivism of a self-identified Moroccan hacker known as ElSurveillance (@ElSurveillance on Twitter). Other media outlets have been starting to pay more...
View ArticleShadi.com hacked and data dumped, but do they even know?
From LeakedSource: Shortly after the hack of MuslimMatch.com, Shadi.com another dating site was hacked around July 10th, 2016. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its...
View ArticleHL7 firm hack compromised clients’ EHR records: The Dark Overlord
On July 12, the hacker known as “The Dark Overlord” (TDO) offered the source code, software signing keys, and customer license database for a Health Level Seven (HL7) entity. The entity was not named...
View ArticleOh, damn, Friday edition.
Several weeks ago, I noted a misconfigured 2014 version of World-Check database and an analysis of its contents. The database contains information on individuals who have histories of allegedly being...
View ArticleUbuntu forums hacked
Chris Mills reports: Canonical announced today that its popular Ubuntu forums have been hacked. Attackers appear to have gather the user names, emails and IP addresses of two million users. Some...
View ArticleExperian Says Lack Of Breach Date Dooms Consumers’ Suit over T-Mobile Hack...
I almost have to admire this defense logic: if you don’t know when our breach occurred or can’t allege it, you can’t prove any claims as to whether something happened before or after the breach, so we...
View ArticleHaeco Says Employees Can’t Sue Over Phished W-2 Data
I was wondering how many lawsuits we might see by employees whose firms fell for phishing schemes involving W-2 data. From what Law360 reports, HAECO employees did sue their employer, who’s arguing...
View ArticleWill Armscor hack result in any fallout?
So maybe I should have reported on this one sooner, but after I saw some initial denials, I didn’t think it was going to be a big deal. It may be a bit bigger than I thought. On July 11, HackRead...
View ArticleAsiana Airlines Website Has Customers’ Personal Data Leak
Huh Sung-soo reports: A lack of security on Asiana Airlines’ website exposed the sensitive information of its passengers. […] Asiana Airlines released a statement that there was an exposure of the...
View ArticleBaseball Hacking Case Ends with Prison
Jeremy Kirk reports: A former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for illegally peeking at a player-drafting database for the Houston Astros – a...
View ArticleSaint John Development Corporation finds cyber attack damage
Rachel Cave reports: The Saint John Development Corporation says it’s working to restore an annual report that it lost to a cyber attack in early 2015. “We lost a lot of our data,” said General Manager...
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