Evite Confirms Data Breach After Hacker Sells User Data On Dark Web.
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Evite, a social planning and e-invitations service, and one of the biggest sites on the Internet, has officially admitted to a security breach that ZDNet first reported back in...
View ArticleRadiohead’s unreleased OK Computer audio was stolen. Now the band is letting...
Allegra Frank reports: When music pirates go low, Radiohead goes high. After a hacker stole 18 hours’ worth of unreleased music that the band recorded during the late ’90s, one of its peak creative...
View ArticleAuto Dealer Software Provider Settles FTC Data Security Allegations
The following is a press release issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that relates to a data security incident — a misconfiguration — discovered by MacKeeper researchers in 2016 that was...
View ArticleCritical Flaw in Evernote Add-On Exposed Sensitive Data of Millions
Sergiu Gatlan reports: A critical flaw in the Evernote Web Clipper Chrome extension could allow potential attackers to access users’ sensitive information from third party online services. “Due to...
View ArticleHacker hits Symantec and accesses passwords
Mark Wyciślik-Wilson reports: Security firm Symantec was attacked by a hacker back in February, but the company did not reveal details of the incident. The attack has been brought to light by Guardian...
View Article$27K in restitution ordered for man who hacked Palo Alto Online
Sue Dremann reports the follow-up on a hack that occurred in 2015 and that was previously reported on this site. The 36-year-old man who hacked and temporarily shut down Palo Alto Online and other...
View ArticleDublin Port Company investigates data leak
RTÉ reports: The Dublin Port Company has confirmed it has launched an investigation into the source of the data leak to establish how it occurred and by whom it was carried out. This follows recent...
View ArticleReport: Job Portal Database Exposed
SafetyDetective reports: SafetyDetective’s research lab discovered a leak online that exposed an elastic server containing 3GB of data with over 1.6 million users affected. We informed the apparent...
View ArticleBreaches have consequences: AMCA files Chapter 11
Jeremy Hill of Bloomberg reports: Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau Inc., whose business was blamed for a large-scale data breach that affected millions of Quest Diagnostics Inc. customers, filed for...
View ArticleThousands of medical injury claim records exposed by ad agency
Zack Whittaker reports: An internet advertising company specializing in helping law firms sign up potential clients has exposed close to 150,000 records from a database that was left unsecured. The...
View ArticleConfidential data of New York company breached in Mumbai
Somendranath Sharma reports: Confidential data entrusted to a Bhayandar-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company by a New York-based company was compromised recently. This has led to a police...
View ArticleEatStreet food ordering service discloses security breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Eatstreet, an online and mobile food ordering service, disclosed today a security breach that took place last month and during which a hacker stole the company’s database,...
View ArticleRansomware gang hacks MSPs to deploy ransomware on customer systems
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A ransomware gang has breached the infrastructure of at least three managed service providers (MSPs) and has used the remote management tools at their dispossal, namely the...
View ArticleInsurance company AIA fined $10,000 by PDPC for personal data breach
Lester Wong reports from Singapore: Insurance company AIA was fined $10,000 by the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) for mistakenly sending 245 letters meant for various customers to just two...
View ArticleWeTransfer Security Incident Sent Files to the Wrong People
Lawrence Abrams reports: In an embarrassing security incident, the WeTransfer file sharing service announced that for two days it was sending it’s users shared files to the wrong people. As this...
View ArticleDominion National investigates and notifies after discovering unauthorized...
ARLINGTON, Va., June 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Dominion National, an insurer and administrator of dental and vision benefits, announced that it is addressing a data security incident involving...
View ArticleFacebook Must Face Lawsuit Over 29 Million-User Data Breach
Kartikay Mehrotra and Aoife White report: Facebook Inc. failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of several privacy snafus that have put the company...
View ArticleHackers steal data from telcos in espionage campaign: cyber firm
Ari Rabinovitch and Tova Cohen report: Hackers broke into the systems of more than a dozen global telecom firms and stole huge amounts of data in a seven-year spying campaign, researchers from a cyber...
View ArticleKenya telecoms giant sued over ‘data breach’
BBC reports: Kenya’s biggest mobile service provider Safaricom is being sued for allegedly violating the data privacy of its 11.5 million consumers. A subscriber has accused the telecom giant of...
View ArticleASIC: 19-153MR Computer hacker Steven Oakes jailed for unauthorised access...
JUNE 25: IT consultant Steven Oakes has today been sentenced in the County Court at Melbourne to a total effective sentence of three years imprisonment, and ordered that he be released after serving 18...
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