LinkedIn suffers huge bot attack that steals members’ personal data
Ethan Baron reports: Data thieves used a massive “botnet” against professional networking site LinkedIn and stole member’s personal information, a new lawsuit reveals. The Mountain View firm filed the...
View ArticleSabinsa sues former employee for data theft
Shane Starling reports: Multinational botanicals giant Sabinsa is suing a former employee, Binoy Mathew, and the managing director of BioActives, the firm with whom he allegedly shared stolen customer...
View ArticleUK: Sage suffers data breach that may impact employees of as many as 300...
Lauren Fedor reports: Personal details and bank account information for employees of as many as 300 UK companies may have been compromised as part of a data breach at Sage, the UK software group. […]...
View ArticleRussian MP’s son faces trial in US over $170 million hacking scheme
If you’ve been meaning to catch up with the case against Roman Seleznev, a Times of Malta report by Martha Bellisle should help. Seleznev’s trial begins next week, and prosecutors plan to lay out...
View ArticlePelosi bombarded with ‘obscene and sick’ calls, texts after cyber attack
As I’ve repeatedly noted over the years, sometimes even just contact info can pose problems for people if it is breached. Erin Kelly reports: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday that she...
View ArticleTwo Kentucky Men Sentenced to Prison for Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
Aug. 12 – Two Kentucky men were sentenced to between five and more than six years in prison today after pleading guilty in April and May to conspiring to defraud the United States, wire fraud, and...
View ArticleThousands of Guests’ Data May Have Been Hacked at Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt...
What, again? Reuters reports: A data breach at 20 U.S. hotels operated by HEI Hotels & Resorts for Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt and Intercontinental may have divulged payment card data from tens of...
View ArticleVirgin Mobile privacy breach sees customers getting access to strangers’...
Michelle Starr reports: A privacy breach seems to be underway at Virgin Mobile. Customers attempting to access their voicemail messages are instead getting access to the voicemail messages of other...
View ArticleSeleznev’s laptop held 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers, says prosecutor
Martha Bellisle of AP reports: When U.S. federal agents arrested a Russian man in the Maldives in 2014, they found 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers on his laptop computer, a federal prosecutor...
View ArticleIn: Three booked for startup firm data theft
TNN reports: The Chatushrungi police have booked three office-bearers of a software company here for allegedly stealing data and vital information of a start-up IT company. The owner of the company,...
View ArticleSocialBlade hacked – LeakedSource
From LeakedSource.com: Socialblade.com was hacked in August of 2016. Their main website contains 273,086 users while their forums contains only 13,009. Each record contains an email address, ip...
View ArticleP.E.I. MLA wants answers about privacy breach at care home
Ryan Ross reports: Health P.E.I. started an investigation into allegations of privacy breaches at the Margaret Stewart Ellis Home in O’Leary. Photos were posted on social media and the CBC reported...
View ArticleUK: Sage Group employee arrested on fraud charge
Ashley Armstrong reports: The City of London police arrested a Sage Group employee at Heathrow airport on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, just two days after the FTSE 100 company...
View ArticleUK: Sage really has had it hands full this week…
In addition to dealing with what appears to be an insider breach that snagged the information of more than 200 Sage corporate customers, Sage also got a phone call from Chris Vickery this week that...
View ArticleData for 6 Million Minecraft Gamers Stolen from Leet.cc Servers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Data breach index service LeakedSource has told Softpedia that it has received the full database and source of Leet.cc, a service for creating and running Minecraft Pocket...
View ArticleMalware Infected All Eddie Bauer Stores in U.S., Canada
Brian Krebs reports: Clothing store chain Eddie Bauer said today it has detected and removed malicious software from point-of-sale systems at all of its 350+ stores in North America, and that credit...
View ArticleOmegle, the Popular ‘Chat with Strangers’ Service Leaks Your Dirty Chats and...
Swati Khandelwal reports: Have you heard of Omegle? The popular, free online anonymous chat service that allows you to chat with random strangers, without any registration. The service randomly pairs...
View ArticleT-Mobile’s Czech subsidiary gets CZK 3.6 million fine for inadequate safeguards
There’s an update to an insider breach involving the Czech subsidiary of T-Mobile. Telecompaper reports (subscription required) that the Czech data protection watchdog has fined T-Mobile CZK 3.6...
View ArticleAU: Miner Norton Gold Fields blames human error for leak of employees’...
Jasmine Bamford and Sam Tomlin report: The operators of a Kalgoorlie gold mine have blamed “human error” after the personal and financial details of several hundred employees were emailed to one of...
View ArticleBeauty site lets anyone read customers’ personal information
Darren Pauli reports: Popular online cosmetics site Strawberrynet has asked customers if a function that allows anyone to retrieve its customers names, billing addresses, and phone numbers with nothing...
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