Bankers Life notified more than 566,000 after hack of employees’ email...
The following is a Bankers Life announcement of a security incident that appears on HHS’s public breach tool under the name “CNO Financial Group, Inc.” According to the report to HHS, the breach...
View ArticleData of nearly 700,000 Amex India customers exposed via unsecured MongoDB server
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal details of nearly 700,000 American Express (Amex) India customers have been accidentally left exposed online via an unsecured MongoDB server. The leaky server,...
View ArticleNames of recreational cannabis buyers hacked
Antonella Artuso reports: The privacy of 4,500 Ontario Cannabis Store customers was breached through what the online retailer says was a weakness in Canada Post’s tracking website, the Toronto Sun has...
View Article‘DerpTroll’ Faces 10 Years in Prison for DDoSing Gaming Sites as a Teen
Tara Seals reports: After a short but disruptive career knocking popular online gaming sites offline for sport, Austin Thompson, a.k.a. “DerpTroll,” has pleaded guilty to hacking charges. He faces a...
View ArticleSecurity breach at Nordstrom involving contract worker breached employee data
Benjamin Romano reports: Seattle-based retailer Nordstrom is notifying employees of an information-security breach that exposed their names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, checking account...
View ArticleFacebook May Face 100M Euro Lawsuit From France’s Internet Society Over...
Daniel R. Stoller reports: A French nongovernmental organization wants Facebook Inc. to pay 100 million euros ($113 million) and fix any problems stemming from recent data security incidents and...
View ArticleA DJI Bug Exposed Drone Photos and User Data
Lily Hay Newman reports: DJI makes some of the most popular quadcopters on the market, but its products have repeatedly drawn scrutiny from the United States government over privacy and security...
View ArticleIranian hackers suspected in cyber breach and extortion attempt on Navy...
Jane Norman reports: Iranian hackers are believed to be responsible for a cyber security breach and extortion attempt on Australia’s biggest defence exporter. Perth-based shipbuilder Austal earlier...
View ArticleMobile World flounders after serious security breach
Vietnam Investment Review reports: On November 7, a hacker has announced full 16-digit credit card numbers, claiming they belong to Mobile World customers. After sharing a file containing more than 5.4...
View ArticleNL: Internet con men ripped off Pathe NL for €19m in business email compromise
Heads rolled in this one, when executives did not spot or prevent business email compromise. As reported by DutchNews.nl: The Dutch operation of the Pathé cinema group was ripped off by internet con...
View ArticleAnother Facebook vulnerability could have exposed information about users and...
Dani Deahl reports: The security company Imperva has released new details on a Facebook vulnerability that could have exposed user data. The bug allowed websites to obtain private information about...
View ArticleThat Domain You Forgot to Renew? Yeah, it’s Now Stealing Credit Cards
Brian Krebs reports: If you own a domain name that gets decent traffic and you fail to pay its annual renewal fee, chances are this mistake will be costly for you and for others. Lately, neglected...
View ArticleOne in five Magecart-infected stores get reinfected within days
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Online stores that have been infected with the Magecart malware –known to record and steal credit card details from checkout forms– often get reinfected after clean-up...
View ArticleMassive Data Leaks Keep Happening Because Big Companies Can Afford to Lose...
Erik Sherman reports: If you live in the United States, there’s almost a 50 percent chance your personal data was lost in the giant Equifax data breach a year ago of 143 million records. Google had its...
View ArticleMedia Prima Locked Out By Ransomware – 1,000 Bitcoins In Ransom Demanded: Report
Vijandren reports: Reports are emerging today that Media Prima Berhad, a public-listed Media powerhouse in Malaysia has had its systems locked out by a ransomware attack. The report, quoting an inside...
View ArticleUK: Hackers, 21 and 23, admit breaking into TalkTalk’s website in a huge data...
Darren Boyle reports: Two computer geeks hacked the website of telecoms giant TalkTalk in a massive data breach costing the company £77m in lost business, a court heard. Connor Allsopp, 21, and Matthew...
View ArticleThis UK pub chain left 17,000 customer details exposed online
Nicole Kobie reports: The personal details of thousands of beer drinkers were left exposed thanks to a Wi-Fi provider proving leakier than a smashed pint glass. Brewhouse & Kitchen is a small chain...
View ArticleTrue Identity of Notorious Hacker tessa88 Revealed – Recorded Future
From Insikt Group: New findings strongly suggest that the individual behind tessa88 may be Maksim Donakov of Penza, Russia, who operated under multiple different monikers on the dark web. It is...
View ArticleUSPS Site Exposed Data on 60 Million Users
Brian Krebs reports: U.S. Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other users, and in some cases to...
View ArticleHackers Hit Adult Furry Website, Exposing Hundreds of Thousands of Users
Melanie Ehrenkranz reports: The website for an adult furry game was hacked, with 411,000 unique email addresses and other personal information leaked, according to Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt. The...
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