Waterly app potentially exposed up to 1 million Israelis’ details: researcher
A vulnerability in a mobile application that many Israelis use to pay their water or other municipal bills may have left 860,000 – 1,000,000 users at risk of account takeover or theft of their personal...
View ArticleESEA hacked, 1.5 million records leaked after alleged failed extortion attempt
Steve Ragan reports: E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA), one of the largest competitive video gaming communities on the planet, was hacked last December. As a result, a database containing 1.5...
View ArticleUK: £150,000 fine for insurance company that failed to keep customers’...
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The ICO has fined Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance PLC (RSA) £150,000 following the loss of the personal information of nearly 60,000 customers. An ICO...
View ArticleTwoPlusTwo Poker Forum Hacked; Personal Data Stolen and Offered for Sale
FlushDraw reports: The world’s largest online poker discussion forum, TwoPlusTwo, has again seen its virtual defenses breached. The site’s operators have confirmed that the forum was hacked at some...
View ArticleHello Kitty Database of 3.3 Million Users Surfaces
Tom Spring reports: A cache of data including 3.3 million user credentials belonging to Hello Kitty parent company Sanrio surfaced over the weekend. The breach was originally reported in December 2015,...
View ArticleD-Link fights back against ‘baseless’ data security lawsuit
Corinne Reichert reports: Cause of Action Institute has announced that it will be defending D-Link against the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s “unwarranted and baseless” lawsuit claiming...
View ArticleHacker Steals 900 GB of Cellebrite Data
Joseph Cox reports: The hackers have been hacked. Motherboard has obtained 900 GB of data related to Cellebrite, one of the most popular companies in the mobile phone hacking industry. The cache...
View ArticleSummit Reinsurance Services breach affected 19,000
The Summit Reinsurance Services ransomware breach, noted previously on this site, is beginning to attract more attention. First State Update reports: As a result of multiple consumer complaints, the...
View ArticleShowpo accuses former employee of stealing customer data and giving it to new...
Jessica Sier reports: Online fashion house Showpo is suing one of its former graphic designers and fledgling online retailer Black Swallow for reputational damage and loss of sales alleging the woman...
View ArticleDetails of Data Breach at MrExcel.com
Seen at MrExcel.com, a breach disclosure with some plain English writing and transparency. Although it’s not good if the hack occurred because vBulletin hadn’t been patched/updated, this disclosure is...
View ArticleZimbabwe computer hacker takes $70k from OK Zim
So Zimbabwe hackers wear hoodies, too, it seems. Oh well….. ZimNews reports: A 33-year-old Chitungwiza based computer hacker Isaiah Marange managed to hack into OK Zimbabwe’s Money Wave System and got...
View ArticleDutch Cops to Warn 20,000 of Email Account Hack
Phil Muncaster reports: Police in the Netherlands are set to email 20,000 possible fraud victims urging them to change their account details, after discovering their credentials had been stolen by a...
View ArticleFired IT employee offered to unlock data — for $200,000
I think a study I saw recently said about 69% of entities reported data loss or breaches associated with departing employees. Vic Ryckaert reminds us what can help if you don’t have control of all...
View ArticleBitcoin exchange employee pleads guilty in U.S. case tied to hacking
Nate Raymond reports: A Florida man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges stemming from his employment with an unlicensed bitcoin exchange that prosecutors say was owned by an Israeli who oversaw a...
View ArticlePOPEYES discloses payment card breach that began in May, 2016; 10 locations...
From their press release: CCC Restaurant Enterprises, LLC, doing business as POPEYES, today announced that a recent data security incident may have compromised the security of payment information of...
View ArticleComputer hacker hits Illinois processor
Frank Esposito reports: The computer system of Advanced Flexible Composites Inc. was hacked on Jan. 17, preventing the firm from processing quote requests or orders and from receiving emails. AFC — a...
View ArticleTranslation company leaks personal data of employees, customers, and many...
Zack Whittaker reports: A California-based translation and interpreter company has confirmed a massive data exposure, which if abused could have let hackers raid the company’s systems and email...
View ArticleClash of Clans Forums Accounts Have Been Hacked
Costea Lestoc reports: It seems that Supercell, the creator of Clash of Clans, has suffered a major security breach. It has been revealed that the company has revealed that during an attack on its...
View ArticleRsync errors lead to data leak at Canadian ISP, KWIC Internet
Steve Ragan reports on a leak first uncovered by Chris Vickery of MacKeeper Security Research Center. Kudos to Steve for ensuring that notification was made so that the files got secured, even though...
View ArticlePayment card data-snatching malware found on 21 Bowlmor AMF bowling centers’...
Bowlmor AMF, the world’s largest bowling center operator, said late Friday that it had a possible data breach at 21 of its more than 300 domestic locations in 12 states between Feb. 4 and March 19....
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