Boy, 17, who showed cyber criminals how to carry out a £42m attack on...
Thomas Burrows reports: A 17-year-old boy who hacked TalkTalk has been given a 12-month youth rehabilitation order and had his iPhone and computer hard drive confiscated for his role in the...
View ArticleUK: TalkTalk hacker who blackmailed company chief during year-long cyber...
While a 17 year-old teen got a rehabilitation order and had his phone confiscated for his role in the TalkTalk hack and other cybercrimes, 19 year-old Daniel Kelley is likely facing real jail time for...
View Article$17.5 Million Settlement With Owner Of Ashleymadison.com In Joint Multi-State...
Settlement Follows Investigation Finding That Adult Dating Website Maintained Lax Security Practices, Misled Consumers About Its Data Security, And Created Fake Female Profiles To Entice Male Users In...
View ArticleYahoo Discloses 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked in 2013
From the not-really-a-surprise dept., Vindu Goel reports: Yahoo, already under a cloud from its summertime disclosure that 500 million user accounts had been hacked in 2014, disclosed Thursday that...
View ArticleStolen Yahoo Data Includes Government Employee Information
Jordan Robertson reports yet another worrying aspect to the newly disclosed Yahoo! breach affecting 1 billion users: government employee accounts were involved, and at least one buyer of the database...
View ArticleLegion hacker claims mail leak of 74,000 chartered accountants
TNN reports: He is an 18-year-old somewhere in India. Or so, he says. And he is part of Legion, the hacker group that has got India’s attention after several high-profile email and Twitter hacks, and...
View ArticleAmeriprise leak exposes millions of dollars worth of accounts
Zack Whittaker reports on another exposed database uncovered by Chris Vickery of the MacKeeper Security Research team: An advisor working for financial planning giant Ameriprise has inadvertently...
View ArticleDomino’s Pizza urges customers to change their passwords
So Domino’s says it hasn’t been hacked, but it wants its customers to use better security hygiene because so many other companies have been hacked. Michael Moore reports: The pizza delivery chain...
View ArticleBleacher Reports Suffers Data Breach as “Unauthorized Party” Accesses User Data
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Sports news portal Bleacher Report announced today a security breach that affected readers that signed up for accounts on the site. At the time of writing the number of...
View ArticleMicrosoft-owned LinkedIn is sending emails to users about a Lynda.com data...
Neowin reports: LinkedIn has begun informing Lynda.com users of a data breach, emailing customers to say that “an unauthorized third party breached a database that included some of your Lynda.com...
View ArticleIn: Ex-staffers of private firm booked for data theft
TNN reports: A city-based customer care firm has alleged that two of its former employees stole sensitive information while employed by them, and used it to start a rival customer care firm in...
View ArticleCT: 3 arrested in fraud scheme that allegedly used veterans’ information
Fox61 reports: STAFFORD SPRINGS — Exactly nine months after police began investigating the possibility that a local company was committing fraud and larceny, three people have been arrested. […] It was...
View ArticlePrivate Numbers Exposed – FLOW Customers’ Personal Information Inadvertently...
Jovan Johnson reports: The full scale has not been revealed, but telecommunications company FLOW is scrambling to explain to perhaps hundreds of customers why their telephone numbers and other data...
View ArticleData breach enables car thieves in Jersualem
Roee Yanovsky reports: Criminals from east Jerusalem were able to use information from a Hyundai and Kia data leak to steal dozens of brand new luxury cars and smuggle them into the West Bank. Israel...
View ArticleHackers Have Stolen Millions Of Dollars In Bitcoin — Using Only Phone Numbers
Laura Shin reports: Just after midnight on August 11, self-professed night owl Jered Kenna was working at home in Medellin, Colombia, when he was notified the passwords had been reset on two of his...
View ArticleReused passwords behind Groupon fraud attack
Nicole Kobie reports: Groupon has denied it’s been hacked following reports that users’ accounts are being abused to buy expensive holidays. Users of the discount site have reported hundreds of pounds...
View ArticleUK: Former LV= employee jailed over data leak
Rozi Jones reports: Two people have been sentenced to 12 months in prison after a leak of confidential data by a former employee of LV= to a claims management company. Aisha Elliott was sentenced to 12...
View ArticleClever Facebook Hack Reveals Private Email Address of Any User
Tom Spring reports: Christmas came early for Facebook bug bounty hunter Tommy DeVoss who was paid $5,000 this week for discovering a security vulnerability that allowed him to view the private email...
View ArticleNJ: Insurance agent allegedly stole clients’ identities to commit fraud
Dave Hutchinson reports: A former Union County insurance agent has been accused of receiving more than $6,000 in illegal commissions by stealing the identities of former clients and fraudulently...
View ArticleInformation On Americans Seeking Russian Visas Breached And Leaked
Alex Pfeiffer reports: The Russian Visa Center, a contractor which helps Americans obtain Russian visas, was allegedly hacked, and the information of around 3000 individuals has been leaked to The...
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