Patrick O’Rourke reports: According to an email sent out to Loblaws account holders, the security of a ‘small number’ of accounts has been compromised, marking the second time the company has suffered a security breach this year. The last time Loblaws’ websites suffered a breach, the company reset all subscriber passwords, though in that case…
Month: July 2017
Man tells feds he wrote software that stole $40M in bitcoin
Peter Hall reports: Police on the trail of two missing laptops and a gold necklace followed it to the Montgomery County home of a self-described computer hacker who claims responsibility for what could be one of the largest virtual currency heists of all time, court documents say. Theodore Price of Hatfield told a local detective…
Romanian Authorities Apprehend Three Men Trying to Sell Stolen Client Data
Jeff Patterson reports: Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has successfully detained three individuals who attempted to sell stolen information from Cyprus-based brokerage. Iliescu Stefan Virgil, Roşoiu Darie Leone, and Vîlceanu Ionut, had succeeded in obtaining sensitive data from the brokerage group, which it intended to sell for upwards of €80k. All…
210 govt. websites found displaying personal info, including Aadhaar
Yuthika Bhargava reports: About 210 government websites were found to be displaying personal information, including name, address and Aadhaar number, of beneficiaries, the government said on Wednesday. “…It was found that around 210 websites of Central Government, State Government Departments, including educational institutes were displaying the list of beneficiaries along with their name, address, other…
Vendor Breached Your Company Data? Sorry, You’re Still Liable
Rhys Dipshan writes: Call it the summer of vendor security mishaps. In June, a data firm hired by the Republican National Committee inadvertently exposed the personal information of almost 200 million American voters by misconfiguring an Amazon cloud server. A month later, Verizon’s customer service vendor NICE Systems made the same mistake and exposed data…
Newcastle mother ‘felt sick inside’ at adoption data leak
BBC reports: A mother who has adopted two children “felt sick inside” when she discovered her details and those of thousands of others had been leaked. Newcastle City Council said information about 2,743 children and their adoptive parents was mistakenly added to a party invitation sent to 77 people in June. The woman said she…