Chris Mills reports: Canonical announced today that its popular Ubuntu forums have been hacked. Attackers appear to have gather the user names, emails and IP addresses of two million users. Some passwords may have been accessed, although they were encrypted. The company was at pains to point out that the Ubuntu code and update mechanisms…
Month: July 2016
Oh, damn, Friday edition.
Several weeks ago, I noted a misconfigured 2014 version of World-Check database and an analysis of its contents. The database contains information on individuals who have histories of allegedly being involved in financial crime, terrorism, or other types of crime. Banks and other institutions use such databases as part of their due diligence. Today, I see that two…
Technology firm hack compromised clients’ EHR records: The Dark Overlord
On July 12, the hacker known as “The Dark Overlord” (TDO) offered the source code, software signing keys, and customer license database for a firm that develops and markets software that among other things, implements the HL7 standards. The entity was not named in the listing on TheRealDeal Market. As I reported on July 12, I was…
Noted while reading news…
Reuters reports Scottrade won dismissal of the class action lawsuit against it over the breach disclosed last year. Some of the previous coverage on the breach and lawsuit can be found on my site, here. *** Mille Lacs County Times reports that the county and former child support investigator Mikki Jo Peterick have agreed to a…
KR: Credit card companies fined over customer data protection failures
For the past few years, I’ve covered the consequences Kookmin, NongHyup, and Lotte Card have faced after cardholders’ information was stolen by an contractor’s employee over an 18-month period from 2012 to 2013. I continue to be impressed that even though some of the fines or consequences haven’t been huge by our standards, there have been consequences to both the…
Shadi.com hacked and data dumped, but do they even know?
From LeakedSource: Shortly after the hack of MuslimMatch.com, Shadi.com another dating site was hacked around July 10th, 2016. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This data set contains 2,035,020 records. Each record contains an email address and one password. Passwords were stored with no…