Noble House Hotels & Resorts notifies guests of payment card breaches at...
More data security woes are being reported by Noble House Hotels & Resorts. The chain, who reported multiple breaches in 2015 and in September of this year, has found additional properties had...
View ArticleSubcontractor error exposed Vermont Health Connect customers’ SSNs
AP reports: A security lapse earlier this summer has jeopardized the Social Security information of nearly 700 users of Vermont’s online health insurance marketplace. Vermont Public Radio reports...
View ArticleIranian Citizen Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Identity Theft and...
Gulfport, Miss –Milad Kalantari, 31, an Iranian citizen, pleaded guilty on October 6, 2016 before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to conspiracy to commit identity theft and access device fraud,...
View ArticleVendor’s employee stole W-4 forms for SIRF scheme
A case involving identity theft reported by the USAO for the Middle District of Alabama this week: A Phenix City, Alabama man was sentenced to 24 months in prison today for his role in a stolen...
View ArticleNullCrew hacker had FBI’s attention by the time he was 17
Jon Seidel reports: Nine years ago, Timothy French began his hacking career, the feds say. By 2011, he had the FBI’s attention. Today, he is 22 years old. Now federal prosecutors want to send the...
View ArticleYahoo Loses Search Engine Partner, First Since Data Breach Reveal
Laurie Sullivan reports: A little-known search engine that focuses on user privacy has canceled its partnership with Yahoo. StartPage made the announcement Monday. “We can no longer have confidence in...
View ArticleHackers stole credit card data from Republican website for 6 months: Report
Andrew Blake reports: A Republican Party website that sells bumper stickers and T-shirts advertising presidential candidate Donald Trump was compromised earlier this year by hackers who spent several...
View ArticleRedBus confirms hack, says no sign of user passwords being stolen yet
Alnoor Peermohamed reports: Online travel giant ibibo Group-owned ticketing platform RedBus on Tuesday confirmed that it had been subject to a cyber attack that might have exposed the email addresses...
View ArticleHookup Service ‘Adult FriendFinder’ May Have Been Hacked—Again
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Online hookup website “Adult FriendFinder” might have been hacked—again. On Tuesday evening, a hacker known as Revolver or 1×0123 claimed to have breached into...
View ArticleWeebly Confirms Data Breach Affecting More Than 43 Million Users
From LeakedSource.com: Well known San-Francisco based “drag-n-drop” website creator Weebly.com had information on 43,430,316 users leaked from its main database in February of 2016. This database was...
View ArticleMartin Gottesfeld, Anonymous hacktivist, charged over hospital DDoS attacks
Andrew Blake reports: Felony hacking charges were handed down Wednesday to a Massachusetts man accused of disrupting the computer networks of Boston-area hospitals with a 2014 digital protest waged...
View ArticleYevgeniy Nikulin indicted for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring
From the U.S.A.O. press release: OAKLAND – A federal grand jury in Oakland indicted Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin yesterday for obtaining information from computers, causing damage to computers,...
View ArticleWhoops: Pro-Donald Trump super PAC publishes donor credit card numbers
Dave Levinthal reports: A pro-Donald Trump super PAC needs to make its accounting practices great again — if they ever were in the first place. Great America PAC on Thursday night erroneously published...
View ArticleSG: Fined for leaking 8,000 people’s personal data
K.C. Vijayan A printing firm hired by an insurance company sent erroneous account statements to policyholders that resulted in more than 8,000 people having their personal data leaked. The data breach...
View ArticleIES users’ data leaked due to ‘inadequate’ security measures: PDPC
Kelly Ng reports: The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) could have “easily detected” and patched security flaws on its website, which had resulted in more than 6,000 users’ personal data being...
View ArticleHelp Us Tell Telly That They Have Exposed 8M Subscribers!
RBS writes: We need your help to contact an organization that has thus far been unresponsive to numerous notifications that we have sent about a discovered data breach! Read on to understand the issue...
View ArticleNets data breach puts 100,000 cards at risk
Alex Hamilton reports: Danish payments processor Nets has been hit by a data breach that could have left up to 100,000 credit cards at risk of fraud. The firm, which was floated last month, has linked...
View ArticleDistrict court tosses all 13 counts in breach lawsuit against Schnuck Markets
Tara Mapes reports: A District Court for the Southern District of Illinois has tossed all 13 counts in data breach case against a grocery store, noting the plaintiffs were too general in their...
View ArticleOwners of Rosslyn coffee shop charged with credit card fraud
Michelle Basch reports: Customers of Caffe Aficionado in Rosslyn are being told to check their credit card statements after the coffee shop was closed down and the owners were arrested and charged with...
View ArticleSecurity Fail Exposed Details of Virgin Media’s UK Job Applicants
Mark Jackson reports: A security flaw in the third-party service that Virgin Media uses to process new job applications could have exposed the personal CV details of between 30,000 and 50,000 people to...
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