Dara Kerr reports that the League of Legends server has been hacked: Riot Games, which developed League of Legends, announced Tuesday that some usernames, e-mail addresses, salted password hashes, first and last names, and even some salted credit card numbers have been accessed. The salted data is somewhat protected, but if users have easily guessable…
Month: August 2013
ZA: Joburg billing security breach
Anna Cox reports that more than 1 million customers may have had their information exposed for years by an improperly secured city web site: The City of Joburg has apologised for the inconvenience caused by the security glitch that exposed customer rates and services invoices to fraudsters. The e-statement site had to be shut down…
Alabama Tax Return Preparers and 19 Foreign Nationals Charged with Conspiring to Defraud the United States, Identity Theft and Money Laundering
The Justice Department announced that a 14-count superseding indictment was unsealed yesterday, charging JB Tax Professional Services Inc., Jacqueline J. Arias and Jose Bayron Estrada, of Spruce Pine, Ala., along with 19 foreign nationals, many of whom resided in the New Orleans area, with conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to commit mail…
Email attachment error breaches privacy of 3,700 Hope Community Resources of Alaska clients
Sean Doogan reports: Families and caregivers connected to Alaska’s disabled are speaking out after the inadvertent release of private, personal and sensitive identity and healthcare information was blasted out in an email chain on Monday night. Some are just angry that an attachment with personal information was accidentally added to a survey solicitation for Hope…
Investigators say Bow Valley College failed to protect vital info of nearly 200,000
Here’s a breach from almost one year ago that I had missed until this follow-up report. Michael Franklin reports: An investigator into a possible leak of personal information of nearly 200,000 Bow Valley students has found that the institution had indeed failed to protect that information. However, it also says that the school took reasonable…
UK: Foxtons investigates leak of 10,000 customer records
Shona Ghosh reports: Foxtons is investigating whether hackers have leaked the account details of around 10,000 property hunters registered with its site. The estate agent said it had obtained the leaked list and was in the process of checking whether any of the details were genuine. The list was posted anonymously to a popular hacking…