Computer hack helped feed an Islamic State death list
Tim Johnson reports: The attack seemed like a garden-variety digital holdup. A computer intruder, calling himself the “Albanian hacker,” left a message for the administrator of a website for an...
View ArticleCici’s Pizza: Card Breach at 130+ Locations
Brian Krebs reports: Cici’s Pizza, a Coppell, Texas-based fast-casual restaurant chain, today acknowledged a credit card breach at more than 135 locations. The disclosure comes more than a month after...
View ArticleBeggars Group Hacked, Warns Customers of Data Breach
Colin Stutz reports: Leading independent record label conglomerate Beggars Group had its online stores hacked in May, with costumers’ confidential information potentially compromised. Matador Direct —...
View ArticleMO: Alleged identity thieves target local car dealership customers
Russell Kinsaul reports: Police say three suspects are indicted for running an in-depth identity theft ring that racked up thousands in fraudulent purchases after stealing customer’s personal...
View ArticleAppeals court won’t let journalist convicted in hacking case stay out of jail...
Josh Gerstein reports: A federal appeals court has denied a last-ditch reprieve for a journalist sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted in a hacking case. The 9th Circuit Court of...
View ArticleWeWork battling another data leak
Konrad Putzier reports: A week after WeWork saw internal financial estimates splashed all over the internet, the company is battling another data leak. Thinknum, a web data company, says it analyzed...
View ArticleHacker steals 1.6 million accounts from top mobile game’s forum
Why don’t people patch vBulletin? This may be one of the mysteries of life. Zack Whittaker reports: A hacker has targeted the official forum for popular mobile game “Clash of Kings,” making off with...
View ArticleTeenager who hacked governments worldwide is spared jail
Martin Evans reports: A teenage computer hacker who shutdown government networks across the world and sent bomb threats to US airlines from his bedroom, has walked free from court. The 16-year-old from...
View ArticleGlassdoor email gaffe exposers users’ email addresses
So Glassdoor updated its terms of service, and dutifully notified its users by putting all their email addresses in the TO: field. Yeah, you read that right. And no one apparently noticed before...
View ArticleWikiLeaks misstep: leaks thousands of DNC emails, some containing personal...
D.B. Hebbard reports: If WikiLeaks wanted to cause itself irreparable damage, it could not have done worse than to publish a huge dump of emails, some of which contain personal information such as...
View Article‘Warframe’ Hacked, Details on 775,000 Players Traded
Joseph Cox reports: User details for online, free-to-play game ‘Warframe’ are being traded in the digital underground. The nearly 800,000 records include email addresses, usernames, and dates for when...
View ArticleUK Security Firm Execs Admit to Hacking Rival Firm
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Five employees of UK-based Quadsys security firm, pleaded guilty in court last week, admitting to hacking the servers of an unnamed rival company. The five are Paul Streeter...
View Article10 million customers’ data leaked from online shopping site
The Korea Herald reports: Police said Monday they are investigating a hacking case involving a leak of more than 10 million customer data from a leading South Korean online shopping mall. An...
View ArticleKimpton Hotels Probes Card Breach Claims
One of these days, Brian Krebs may be wrong when he reports that a chain has had a breach. Today is probably not that day, however: Kimpton Hotels, a boutique hotel brand that includes 62 properties...
View Article3D print biz Shapeways hacked, home and email addresses swiped
Iain Thomson reports: Custom 3D model printing biz Shapeways has been hacked, who gained access to customers’ shipping and email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords. New York-based Shapeways...
View ArticleN. Korea behind Interpark’s massive customer data leak: police
Well, it was only a matter of time before we saw this, right? South Korean police said Thursday that North Korea was behind the latest hacking of a leading online shopping mall, which led to the leak...
View ArticleRussia to U.S., Trump: Sort out your own pre-election hacking scandal
Andrew Osborn and Maria Tsvetkova report: Russia told the United States on Thursday to get to the bottom of a hacking scandal involving Democratic Party emails itself and rejected what Donald Trump...
View ArticleUpdate: FTC Approves Final Order in ASUS Privacy Case
After a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order resolving the Commission’s complaint against ASUSTeK Computer, Inc., charging that critical security flaws in its...
View ArticleSGI catches snoop in Vonda, notifying customers of privacy breach
CBC reports: Someone in an SGI office in Vonda, Sask. has been snooping. That’s the finding of an SGI investigation after a privacy breach was discovered. The insurance company said customers are being...
View ArticlePregnancy-tracking app was riddled with vulnerabilities, exposing extremely...
Cory Doctorow reports: Consumer Reports Labs tested Glow, a very popular menstrual cycle/fertility-tracking app, and found that the app’s designers had made a number of fundamental errors in the...
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