McDonald’s Canada says 95,000 affected in careers website hack
The Canadian Press reports: McDonald’s Canada says the jobs section of its website has been hacked, compromising the personal information of about 95,000 applicants over the last three years. The...
View ArticleExpedia Sued by Affiliate for Allegedly Stealing Data and Handing It to a...
Dennis Schaal reports: An Expedia affiliate partner, Reservation Counter, has filed a lawsuit against Expedia Inc. alleging that the company stole Reservation Counter’s confidential search engine...
View ArticleParents of accused Yahoo hacker claim son is innocent ‘scapegoat’
Jackie Dunham reports: The parents of a 22-year-old Ancaster, Ont. man charged in connection with a massive cybersecurity breach at Yahoo are speaking out in defence of their son. Akhmet and Dinara...
View ArticleLeak of diabetic patients’ data highlights risks of giving info to telemarketers
Personal and health information of 918,000 vulnerable seniors was exposed on the Internet for months by a software developer working on a project. No one would have even known about it if the leak...
View ArticleTeen Hackers Stole $300,000 From a Travel Site and Used It to Buy a Ducati
Renaldo Gabriel reports: It was their ticket to life in the fast lane. A team of Indonesian hackers allegedly broke into the popular online ticketing site Tiket.com, stealing some Rp 4.1 billion...
View ArticleGamestop.com Investigating Possible Breach
Brian Krebs reports: Video game giant GameStop Corp. [NSYE: GME] says it is investigating reports that hackers may have siphoned credit card and customer data from its website — gamestop.com. The...
View ArticleFormer Allegro worker accused of inserting ‘time bomb’ in company network
Craig S. Semon reports: A Shrewsbury man is accused of hacking into the main computer network of his former employer, Allegro MicroSystems, and uploading and inserting malicious computer programming...
View ArticleThe threat within: Arrests of former employees announced in two New Jersey cases
Jessica Mazzola reports: An East Brunswick man was arrested Friday on charges he stole about 20,000 confidential files from his employer to open a consulting business after his retirement, federal...
View ArticleWonga warns 270,000 borrowers of possible data theft
Mark Vandevelde reports that payday lender Wonga is notifying 270,000 customers that their personal details may have been acquired by a hacker. In related coverage, Shruti Tripathi Chopra of City A.M....
View ArticleWould you like your bank account cleaned out with your car?
If you used a payment card between February 6 and February 28 at any Acme Car Wash, Clearwater Express Car Wash, Wildwater Express Carwash, or Auto Pride Car Wash location, check your debit card...
View ArticleCanadian judge denies bail to alleged Yahoo hacker, Karim Baratov
Rob Gillies reports: A judge denied bail Tuesday to a Canadian man accused in a massive hack of Yahoo emails, arguing he had the means and incentive to flee. Karim Baratov, 22, has alleged ties to...
View ArticleMontreal man gives HP failing grade after data breach
And once again, we see why incident response is so important to reputation management. CBC reports: When Montrealer Hamid Shirdastian alerted tech company HP Inc. to a possible scam earlier this month,...
View ArticlePersonal details of thousands of UK drivers ‘are exposed in huge data breach’...
Rebecca Taylor reports: Thousands of users of a parking payment app have potentially had their details shared with other customers in what is suspected to be a huge data breach. Following an app...
View ArticleInterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) Notifies Guests of Payment Card Incident...
Staying at a Holiday Inn Express may have made you smarter, but it also may have exposed you to payment card data compromise. From IHG: April 14, 2017 IHG values the relationship we have with our...
View ArticleUpmarket Sydney hotel targeted by cybercriminals
The hospitality sector continues to be an attractive target for criminals. 9News in Australia reports: … guests at the Seasons Hotel at Sydney’s Darling Harbour likely had their personal information...
View ArticleMiffed with Snapchat CEO, Indian hackers claim to have leaked data of 1.7...
Shashank Shekhar reports: Anonymous Indian hackers claim to have leaked database of 1.7 million Snapchat users, which they hacked last year. The move by Indian hackers came in retaliation to Snapchat’s...
View ArticleKimpton Hotels Can’t Check Out of Class Data Breach Claims
And the data breach litigation merry-go-round continues. Daniel R. Stoller reports on a case in California where plaintiffs survived a motion to dismiss but had complaint narrowed by the court: Upscale...
View ArticleShowpo settles data ‘theft’ allegations against Black Swallow for $60,000
Jessica Sier reports: Online retailers Showpo and Black Swallow have settled their data breach dispute, after Showpo alleged one of its former graphic designers downloaded the company’s entire customer...
View ArticleSingtel vendor Tech Mahindra fined $10k for data breach
Irene Tham reports: Singapore’s privacy watchdog has fined India-based Tech Mahindra $10,000 for failing to protect the personal details of 2.78 million Singtel customers from unauthorised changes,...
View ArticleHe’s got access to your students’ info and is trying to decide what to do....
So far, I have not attempted to validate the claims in a post spotted on a dark web forum, below. I am posting it in the hopes that it will make some teachers – and school administrators – think about...
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