UK: Computer hacker, 21, faces jail for stealing customer details from...
Henry Martin reports: A computer hacker who stole customer details from mobile network TalkTalk in a massive data breach which cost the company £77m in lost business is facing jail. Daniel Kelley, 21,...
View ArticleANA Suffers Phishing Attack, Possible Theft Of Data
Wendy Davis reports: The Association of National Advertisers suffered a phishing attack last year that may have resulted in the theft of employee data, including names and social security numbers,...
View ArticleVale é hackeada e documentos mostram como empresa lida com acidentes (Vale is...
The following is a Google translation of a news report by Felipe Payao: The Brazilian multinational mining company Vale was invaded and supposedly confidential internal documents were withdrawn and...
View ArticleHouzz suffers a huge data breach, asks users to reset password
A. J. Dellinger reports: Home improvement startup Houzz suffered informed its users on Thursday, January 31, that it suffered a data breach. The company has not provided details about the occurrence...
View ArticleHacker who reported flaw in Hungarian Telekom faces up to 8-years in prison
Mohit Kumar reports: Last year, Hungarian police arrested a 20-year-old ethical hacker accused of finding and exploiting serious vulnerabilities in Magyar Telekom, the largest Hungarian...
View ArticleUK: Leave.EU and Eldon Insurance fined over data law breach
Oliver Wright reports: The Brexit campaign group Leave.EU and an insurance company run by its founder Arron Banks are facing fines of £120,000 for data protection breaches. The Information...
View ArticleRussian Darknet Forum Selling Access to U.S. News Sites
M.H.n reports: Sixgill, an Israeli threat intelligence company, recently revealed that a Russian-language darknet forum has been selling access to the content management systems of a variety of news...
View ArticleHuddle House payment card breach could potentially impact 300,000 customers –...
Georgia-based Huddle House opened in Decatur, Georgia, in 1964. Over the years, they have cultivated their brand as the kind of place where customers can get a good meal any time of the day, with...
View ArticleEskom data leak exposes sensitive customer information – Security researcher
If you don’t respond and respond appropriately quickly when people attempt responsible disclosure, don’t be surprised when your security problem is aired publicly on Twitter. Security researcher Devin...
View ArticleTrakt tardily notifies users of data breach that took place over four years ago
Mark Wycislik-Wilson reports: Users of Trakt — a service for “scrobbling”, or tracking the movies and TV shows you watch in the likes of Plex and Kodi — have received emails from the company notifying...
View ArticleIndecent disclosure: Gay dating app left “private” images, data exposed to Web
Sean Gallagher reports on yet another exposed Amazon bucket: Jack’d, a “gay dating and chat” application with more than 1 million downloads from the Google Play store, has been leaving images posted by...
View ArticlePharmaca notifies customers of payment card breach affecting brick-and-mortar...
Those of us who read breach notifications to state attorneys general (yes, we have no life), likely all spotted a notification in mid-January involving Pharmaca. The notification stated that in...
View ArticleNZ: Landlord’s ‘blacklist’ of tenant’s criminal convictions hacked and leaked...
Samesh Mohanlall reports: A woman was shocked to discover her decades-old criminal record had been published online, part of a blacklist of compromising information compiled by a property investor...
View ArticleIs your airline’s e-ticketing system putting your data at risk?
Liarna LaPorta of Wandera reports: Wandera’s threat research team has discovered a vulnerability affecting a number of airline e-ticketing systems that can expose passengers’ personally identifiable...
View ArticleMumsnet reports itself to regulator over data breach
Alex Hern reports: Mumsnet has reported itself to the information commissioner after a data breach resulted in users accidentally logging into the accounts of strangers. A botched upgrade to the...
View ArticleTwo incidents involving Texas tax preparers may have put customers at risk of...
Remember when it seemed like every day we were reading about ID theft and tax refund fraud schemes involving rogue employees of tax preparation firms? Yeah, well it’s still a thing. Here’s a story...
View ArticleUsers complain of account hacks, but OkCupid denies a data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: It’s bad enough that dating sites are a pit of exaggerations and inevitable disappointment, they’re also a hot target for hackers. Dating sites aren’t considered the goldmine of...
View Article620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites now for sale on dark web,...
Chris Williams reports: Some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are on sale from today on the dark web, according to the data trove’s seller. For less than $20,000 in...
View ArticleHackers Wipe VFEmail Servers, May Shut Down After Catastrophic Data Loss
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The U.S. servers of privacy-focused e-mail provider VFEmail were hacked into on February 11 and all the data was destroyed, on both the main and the backup systems. According to...
View Article500px reveals 2018 breach that exposed user data
Mariella Moon reports: Photo-sharing platform 500px has revealed that it suffered a security breach that exposed its users’ data and profile information. While the company’s engineers have only just...
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