Consumer Caution: Factory RV Surplus exposing customer info
I usually withhold information about a leaky site until it’s been secured, but when a company repeatedly fails to follow up and ignores notifications by phone and email, and when the company...
View ArticleEpic’s forums hacked again, with thousands of logins stolen
Another forum using vBulletin hacked? Zack Whittaker reports: A hacker has stolen hundreds of thousands of forum accounts associated with Unreal Engine and its maker, Epic Games. More than 808,000...
View ArticleHas your internet provider been compromised? Malicious insiders are helping...
Danny Palmer reports: Be they disaffected insiders or victims of blackmail, staff at telecommunications firms are providing cybercriminals with the information required to carry out cyberattacks...
View ArticleAshley Madison investigation by Canada and Australia results in compliance...
Ashley Madison marketed itself as a “100% discreet service” for people seeking to have affairs — and bolstered that claim with a fabricated security trustmark — but the company behind the website had...
View ArticleFrench sub builder data leak of concern
AAP reports: A leak of secret documents from the French company that won the bid to design Australia’s new $50 billion submarine fleet raises fears about the security of top-secret data on the navy’s...
View ArticleFBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others: CNN...
Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz report: Hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence have carried out a series of cyber breaches targeting reporters at the New York Times and other US news...
View ArticleMail.ru Forums Hack Compromises over 25 Million User Accounts
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Data breach index service LeakedSource has added a slew of new hacked websites to its database, including over 25 million user records from three compromised Mail.ru...
View ArticleThe Secret World’s Forums Have Been Breached And Passwords Cracked
Alex Walker reports: Funcom, makers of The Secret World, The Longest Journey, Age of Conan and Anarchy Online, announced earlier this morning that their forums have been compromised and user data...
View ArticleMillennium Hotels & Resorts North America Informed of Potential Data Security...
The Secret Service alerts you, a vendor notifies you… do we really think this is just a “potential” data security incident? Their press release: Millennium Hotels & Resorts North America (MHR) has...
View ArticleTH: ID thieves arrested for 986K internet banking theft
Sunthon Pongpao reports: Six men have been arrested and charged with identity theft and stealing nearly 1 million baht [approximately USD $29,000] via internet banking from an auto accessory trader in...
View ArticleNoble House Hotels & Resorts responds to data breach
I wonder if this incident involves the same unnamed vendor linked to the Millenium Hotels & Resorts incident. Noble House Hotels and Resorts (Noble House) values the relationship it has with its...
View ArticleRoman Seleznev Found Guilty on 38 Counts
I guess the jury didn’t buy the defense’s claim that the government had tampered with the evidence on Seleznev’s laptop. A federal jury yesterday convicted a Vladivostok, Russia, man of 38 counts...
View ArticleFines levied in Danish media snooping case
Ray W writes: Aller Media, the owner of Danish gossip magazine Se & Hor, was fined 10 million kroner [approximately $1.5 million] – and the magazine’s former managing editor, Kim Bretov, and former...
View ArticleDropbox: Resetting passwords to keep your files safe
It looks like Dropbox had a late discovery on scope of a previously reported breach. From their blog yesterday: If you signed up for Dropbox prior to mid-2012 and haven’t changed your password since,...
View ArticleOpera server breach incident
Tarquin Wilton-Jones writes on Opera’s blog: Earlier this week, we detected signs of an attack where access was gained to the Opera sync system. This attack was quickly blocked. Our investigations are...
View ArticleFBI raids home of ex-College Board official in probe of SAT leak
Renee Dudley and John Shiffman report: Federal agents searched the home of a former employee-turned-outspoken critic of the College Board, the standardized testing giant, as part of an investigation...
View ArticleTens of Thousands of Infowars Accounts Hacked (UPDATED)
Joseph Cox reports: Tens of thousands of subscriber accounts for media company Infowars are being traded in the digital underground. Infowars, created by famed radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex...
View ArticleBenecard 3rd Circ. Win Is Latest Setback For Hack Victims
Allison Grande reports: The Third Circuit recently refused to allow Benecard Inc. employees and customers to proceed with negligence and breach of contract claims against the company in the wake of a...
View ArticleClass Claims St. Jude Pacemakers Can Be Hacked
From the you’re-not-really-surprised-by-this-are-you? dept., Don DeBenedictis reports: In a class action that sounds like a Tom Clancy novel, a patient claims that pacemakers and other implanted heart...
View ArticleAn unprotected database containing personal customer data of thousands of...
Zack Whittaker reports: Thousands of remote villagers in Guatemala and South Africa are living off the grid, but their personal information isn’t. Chris Vickery, lead security researcher of the...
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