Credit card stealing malware on Canada’s 1-800-FLOWERS website went...
Zack Whittaker reports: It’s going to take more than a bunch of posies to make up for this one. The Canadian branch of 1-800-FLOWERS revealed in a filing with the California attorney general’s office...
View ArticleCalifornia-based professional employer organization hacked by...
TheDarkOverlord (TDO) has been busy, it seems. In the past month or so, the hackers – who have seemingly managed to continue to evade capture by law enforcement – have revealed a number of hacks never...
View ArticleClothing company OppoSuits hit by Magecart attack
Sam Varghese reports: Customers of Dutch clothing company OppoSuits have been warned to monitor their credit card accounts after the firm reported that malware planted on its website could have stolen...
View ArticleBeatStars discloses security breach in Twitter live stream
Catalin Cimpanu reports: BeatStars, a marketplace for selling music production beats, has disclosed a security breach today. In a Periscope live stream shared on Twitter, Abe Batshon, BeatStars CEO...
View ArticleLocation, location, location — Thursday edition
So here’s a comforting headline (NOT!) that popped up in my news reading this morning: About 69% of Indian Android apps have access to your exact location: Study. And if you read the article, you learn...
View ArticleBethesda’s support site leaked people’s real names and addresses
Matt Cox reports: In a security breach last night (now resolved), Bethesda’s support site revealed the personal information of customers who’d submitted support tickets. The details – which included...
View ArticleU.S. Readies Charges Against Chinese Hackers
Dustin Volz reports: Federal prosecutors are expected to unseal criminal charges as soon as next week against hackers linked to the Chinese government who have allegedly engaged in a sophisticated...
View ArticleTN: Dickson attorney charged with fraud, identity theft of clients and law...
Joey Gill reports: A Dickson attorney is facing federal charges after a Department of Justice investigation uncovered $1.3 million stolen from clients and false tax returns filed. Jackie Lynn Garton,...
View ArticleEquifax Breach “Entirely Preventable”: House Oversight Committee
From the good folks at EPIC.org: In a report released today, the House Committee on Oversight declared that the Equifax breach, which affected 148 million U.S. consumers, was “entirely preventable.”...
View ArticleSaipem servers suffer cyber attack in Middle East
Stephen Jewkes reports: Italian oil services company Saipem said it had identified a cyber attack out of India on Monday that had primarily affected its servers in the Middle East. […] Saipem’s head of...
View ArticleDitch Google+ now.
David Thacker of G Suite writes that Google is abandoning Google+ even sooner than it had originally planned. A recent bug affecting more than 50 million users seemed to be the death knell for the...
View ArticleR.I. pension system sues Google for not disclosing breach
Donita Taylor reports: Rhode Island is suing the parent company of Google for hiding a security breach that affected 52.5 million users, state General Treasurer Seth Magaziner stated in a news release...
View ArticleAmsterdam data leak identifies secret AirBnB complaints
Janene Pieters reports: A data leak affecting the municipality of Amsterdam revealed the names and addresses of residents upset about the city’s home share policy. In one case a phone number was also...
View ArticleTicketmaster tells customer it’s not at fault for site’s Magecart malware pwnage
From the maybe-if-we-just-say-it’s-not-our-fault? dept, Gareth Corfield reports: Ticketmaster is telling its customers that it wasn’t to blame for the infection of its site by a strain of the Magecart...
View ArticleASI Computer Systems notifies customers after discovering support site...
ASI Computers is notifying some of their customers after discovering on November 1, 2018 that usernames and passwords on a support web site had been hacked prior to December 2016. From their...
View ArticleAU: Thousands affected in ActewAGL and Icon Water mail-out privacy breach
Jasper Lindell reports: ActewAGL has confirmed 400 electricity, gas and water customers have received bundles of bills addressed to other utility customers in a massive privacy breach affecting 6000...
View ArticlePopular avatar app Boomoji exposed millions of users’ contact lists and...
Zack Whittaker reports: Popular animated avatar creator app Boomoji, with more than five million users across the world, exposed the personal data of its entire user base after it failed to put...
View ArticleNYS A.G. Underwood Announces Settlements With Five Companies Whose Mobile...
Mobile Apps Operated by Western Union, Priceline, Equifax, Spark Networks, and Credit Sesame Suffered from Well-Known Security Vulnerability Program to Protect App Users’ Information Part of AG...
View ArticleHammer Nutrition notifies customers after discovering hack of
A reader kindly sent in this notification from Hammer Nutrition: NOTICE OF POTENTIAL DATA BREACH Dear Valued Customer, It is with deep regret that I am writing to inform you of an incident involving...
View ArticleTwitter tumbles on concerns about hacking activity, data theft attempt
TWITTER Inc shares fell almost 7 per cent on Monday after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that might be from state-sponsored hackers and, in what appeared to be an unrelated...
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