Yahoo says 32m user accounts were accessed via cookie forging attack
Asha McLean reports: Yahoo has said that an unauthorised third party accessed the company’s proprietary code to learn how to forge certain cookies, which it said resulted in an intruder accessing...
View ArticleColumbia Sportswear Accuses Former IT Employee Of Hacking
Steven Trader reports: Columbia Sportswear Co. on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in Oregon federal court accusing a former employee in its information technology department of illegally hacking into its...
View ArticleHundreds of Lowe’s customers’ personal information compromised
Paul Boyd reports: Personal information connected to hundreds of Lowe’s customers has been compromised. The breach is connected to a fax machine in Vancouver, Canada. A spokesperson from the company...
View ArticleHackers attack Pa. Senate Democrats’ computer system with Ransomware
Jan Murphy reports: A cyberattack forced the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus to shutdown its computer system on Friday, according to a statement from the caucus’ leader Sen. Jay Costa. The...
View ArticleMossack Fonseca founders still under arrest as Panama Papers firm quits New...
I haven’t provided any updates on this in a while, but Neil Camilleri provides a good update to events in the Panama Papers case on The Malta Independent. Did you know that Mossack and Fonseca had been...
View ArticleSpammers expose their entire operation through bad backups
Sometimes you just have to grin when the bad guys screw up, misconfigure their backup, and expose their entire operation to the world. This is one of those times. Chris Vickery of the MacKeeper...
View ArticleData firm behind Trump victory hits back at Brexit data breach allegations
Karen Gilchrist reports: The data analytics firm employed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign team has hit back at allegations that it may have breached data protection rights during the U.K.’s...
View ArticleSolarwinds sends customers each others’ complete client lists
Alexander J. Martin reports: Software company Solarwinds, which sells IT management tools, has infuriated customers after a faulty alert exposed customers’ entire client lists to their competitors. An...
View ArticlePayments Giant Verifone Investigating Breach Affecting Gas Stations
Brian Krebs reports: Credit and debit card payments giant Verifone [NYSE: PAY] is investigating a breach of its internal computer networks that appears to have impacted a number of companies running...
View ArticleFort Myers man arrested, charged with cyber attack on Calif. software company
Melissa Montoya reports: A 29-year-old Fort Myers man was arrested after an FBI investigation found he allegedly shut down a San Diego software company’s website. Gerard “Jerry” M. McTear III was taken...
View ArticleNV: Personal info found in files dumped on sidewalk
Tom George A large bag with files including names, addresses, and social security numbers was found left in a bag on a sidewalk near Charleston and Eastern. Our 13 Action News morning crew was in the...
View ArticleHome Depot to Pay Banks $25 Million in Data Breach Settlement
Jeff John Roberts reports: Home Depot has taken another step to move on from its colossal 2014 data breach, which involved hackers stealing email or credit card information from more than 50 million...
View ArticleNY: Clients’ Personal Info Exposed Near Shuttered David Barton Gym
Ray Villeda reports: Paperwork containing the personal information of clients at a shuttered David Barton Gym in downtown Manhattan was found strewn across the heavily-trafficked streets in the area...
View ArticleVeridian Credit Union sues Eddie Bauer for failing to prevent data breach
Matt Day reports that another retailer has been sued by financial institutions hoping to recover their costs of a breach. Veridian Credit Union filed suit, seeking class-action status, in Seattle...
View ArticleThousands of Welsh NHS staff’s data stolen in hack
BBC reports: Details of thousands of medical staff in Wales have been stolen from a private contractor’s computer server. Names, dates of birth, radiation doses and National Insurance numbers of staff...
View ArticleAU: Hackers steal thousands after Queensland School Photography targeted online
Kristian Silva reports: Hackers have targeted a school photography company, with fraudsters making transactions around the world using the credit card details of Queensland parents. Queensland School...
View ArticleThree Mobile hack affected 76,000 more customers than thought
Cara McGoogan reports: Three Mobile has said that 76,373 more customers were affected in the data breach revealed by the Telegraph last year. The figure brings the total number of people whose...
View ArticleGMO Payment Gateway confirms data leakage from two client websites
Maria Nikolova reports: Information security is key in the financial industry but problems concerning maintaining personal data safe keep emerging. GMO Payment Gateway Inc (TYO:3769), the Japanese...
View ArticleDatabase with personal info on 33M apparently breached
Joe Uchill reports: A database of information on 33 million people was leaked to a researcher, apparently breached from a large business services company. Troy Hunt, who runs the website “Have I Been...
View ArticleJustice Department charging Russian spies and criminal hackers in Yahoo...
Update: The DOJ’s press release can be found here and the indictment can be found here. Ellen Nakashima reports: The Justice Department is set to announce Wednesday the indictments of two Russian spies...
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