CyberWarNews.info reports: Reshared, Recycled, Swapped and Sold breach data is being a common thing and well once again someone has complied a bunch of public and not so public combo lists from well known previous breaches that when combined have a total of 3,443,684,697 Emails with 2,914,838,915 of them being unique leaving only about 333K…
Month: February 2018
Another day and Another Bulk Breach Dump Totaling over 3.4 Billion Credentials.
Reshared, Recycled, Swapped and Sold breach data is being a common thing and well once again someone has complied a bunch of public and not so public combo lists from well known previous breaches that when combined have a total of 3,443,684,697 Emails with 2,914,838,915 of them being unique leaving only about 333K duplicate entries….
University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Association notifies alumni after unintentional exposure of SSN
Remember when universities used Social Security numbers as student IDs? Well, if you contact alumni, make sure you are no longer using their SSN as their IDs. The University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Association is notifying an unspecified number of their alumni after they discovered that using old student IDs was a current risk. From…
North Korea hacking group is expanding operations, researchers say
Steve Ragan reports: A group of hackers from North Korea (DPRK), recently connected to the usage of an Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878), has expanded its operations in both scope and sophistication, FireEye says. With a tool-set that includes zero-day vulnerabilities, destructive malware, and lack of concern when it comes to breaking norms and exasperating…
Russian computer hackers in Colorado sold stolen credit card numbers for $3.6 million
Kirk Mitchell reports: Russian computer hackers operating in Colorado and 15 other states used data-mining viruses to steal thousands of credit card numbers from U.S. residents in 20 states and sold them on the darknet for more than $3.6 million, according to federal court documents. As part of the wide-scale criminal operation, so-called “carders” from…
Porsche Japan customers data leaked
The Japanese arm of German automaker Porsche says more than 28,000 email addresses have been leaked via a hack. Porsche Japan says information at risk includes 23,151 email addresses belonging to customers who asked for product brochures via the internet between 2000 and 2009. Its officials suspect their customers’ names, postal addresses, phone numbers and…