Hackers hit 14 new firms including Vodafone and sell YOUR details on ‘Dark...
Ben Ellery and Jaber Mohamed report: Criminals are selling the private details of thousands of British consumers online as a result of the TalkTalk hacking scandal – and dozens more major companies are...
View ArticleMac-Torrents hacked, user info leaked
HaveIBeenPwned.com reports: In October 2015, the torrent site Mac-Torrents was hacked and almost 94k usernames, email addresses and passwords were leaked. The passwords were hashed with MD5 and no...
View ArticlePageFair breach disclosure
Here’s an example of how to timely detect and disclose a breach transparently. Halloween Security Breach By Sean Blanchfield PageFair security breach has been resolved – here is what you need to know....
View ArticleVBulletin, Foxit Software forums hacked by Coldzer0; hundreds of thousands of...
This post was co-authored with @Cyber_War_News. Some days we scratch our heads at the folks who proudly claim hacks and then give law enforcement enough evidence to go after them. And then this...
View ArticleTalkTalk data being used to con seniors
A caution from the Daily Mail: In the past week, many pensioners have told the Daily Mail how they have fallen victim to conmen pretending to be from TalkTalk. They often claim to be offering...
View ArticleThe Hacking Team Defectors
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bichhierai has a good piece about members of the Hacking Team who left, and what happened afterwards. Here’s a teaser from it: His name is Alberto Pelliccione. Until last year, he...
View ArticleWalmart notifying Niagara customers of potential security breach
Newstalk610 reports an update to the PNI Digital Media breach that impacted photo centers at a number of chain retailers: Some Niagara customers who had photos printed at Walmart are getting emails...
View ArticlevBulletin patches and forces password reset as 0day is posted for sale
@Cyber_War_News contributed to this post. vBulletin.com is back online after a breach first reported on DataBreaches.net. In new developments, vBulletin forced a password reset and issued a patch while...
View ArticleFourth arrest in TalkTalk case
A fourth person has been arrested in connection with the investigation into alleged data theft from TalkTalk. On the evening of Tuesday, 3 November, detectives from the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime...
View ArticleMPs launch ‘TalkTalk’ inquiry over security of personal data online
It looks like the UK’s legislators are following in the footsteps of the Beltway: huff and puff, ask questions, and probably do nothing. Alexander J. Martin reports: Executives at TalkTalk, including...
View ArticleAU: Essendon privacy lapse as personal contact information of prominent...
Grant Baker reports: The personal contact information of Essendon’s most prominent and powerful supporters has been mistakenly emailed to more than 380 members of the club’s past players and officials...
View ArticleShowTix4U ticket website customers warned following
Ryan Burk reports: A Nevada based online ticket sales service used heavily in Central Wisconsin says it has had a data breach, exposing some of its customers to an increased risk for credit card theft....
View ArticleZA: Crystal Web suffers ADSL security breach
MyBroadband reports: Crystal Web suffered a security breach recently, after DSL subscribers’ username and password information was exposed via an online customer portal. Crystal Web CEO Shaun Kaplan...
View ArticleAU: SpinTel breaches privacy of 400 customers
Corinne Reichert reports: The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has directed telecommunications provider SpinTel to comply with the IPND Industry Code after breaching the privacy of...
View ArticleTalkTalk offers customer £30.20 ‘final settlement’ after crims nick £3,500
TalkTalk is really turning out to be the poster child for how not to handle a breach. In today’s installment of “Lollipops are Adequate Mitigation, Right?” Alexander J. Martin reports: TalkTalk is...
View ArticleTalkTalk and “Glubz”
For reasons that are too contorted or convoluted to fully explain, I’ve been keeping an eye on a number of Twitter accounts that I suspect include those arrested for the TalkTalk breach. But Brian...
View ArticleHow Hackers Breached Two Gambling Payment Providers To Harvest ‘Millions’ Of...
Two breaches seemed small and innocuous at the time, but weren’t. A timely reminder why entities should notify even when they think risk is low. Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: In 2009 and 2010 two...
View ArticleInterstitial Cystitis Network notifies customers of payment card breach
The California-based Interstitial Cystitis Network is notifying customers of a breach after customers first alerted them that payment cards used on their site had been compromised. In a letter dated...
View ArticleIn a first, the FCC is fining a major cable company for getting hacked
Brian Fung reports: In the first such case against a U.S. cable company, federal regulators are slapping Cox Communications with a $595,000 fine after Cox allowed hackers from Lizard Squad to penetrate...
View ArticleUK: Popular postcard app Touchnote suffers data breach
Dan Thorp-Lancaster reports: The team behind Touchnote, a popular Android app for sending photos you’ve taken as postcards, has sent an email out to customers announcing that the service was hit by a...
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