John E. Dunn reports: Babysitting-booking app Sitter “temporarily” exposed the personal data of 93,000 account holders, according to a researcher who recently discovered the trove of data using the Shodan Internet of Things (IoT) search engine. In a LinkedIn post, Bob Diachenko explains how he found the 2GB MongoDB database on August 13, which contained…
Month: August 2018
T-Mobile experienced a data breach on August 20th
Update: About 2 million customers are reportedly affected. Alex Wagner reports: T-Mobile today confirmed that it was affected by a security breach. T-Mobile says that on August 20th, it discovered a security breach that affected the accounts of some customers. The malicious party did not get access to any financial data, social security numbers, or…
Darden reports possible data breach of 567,000 payment card numbers at Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen restaurants
Reuters reports: Darden Restaurants Inc said on Wednesday it was recently notified by federal authorities that guest data from certain of its Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen restaurants may have been compromised in a cyber attack incident. The Olive Garden owner said its systems and networks were unaffected by the incident, as the breach occurred on a…
Democratic Party Says It Thwarted Attempted Hack of Voter Database
Update: the phishing attack turned out to be a simulation. See links in the comments below this post. Sheera Frenkel and Jonathan Martin report: The Democratic National Committee said Wednesday that it was alerted to an attempted hack of its voter database this week and that it had notified law enforcement. The effort to target…
Alleged 19-Year-Old SIM Swapper Used Stolen Bitcoin to Buy Luxury Cars
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Police in California arrested another hacker accused of hijacking phone numbers with the goal of stealing cryptocurrency on August 17. Xzavyer Narvaez, 19, is accused of seven counts of computer crimes, identity fraud, and grand theft, according to a complaint obtained by Motherboard. Narvaez’s arrest comes approximately a month after that of Joel…
37,000 Eir customers face data breach in laptop theft
Adrian Weckler reports: Some 37,000 Eir customers have been hit by a security breach after a staff laptop was stolen. The telecoms firm said that the breach happened when an unencrypted device was stolen outside an office at the weekend. Customer data exposed included names, email addresses, phone numbers and Eir account numbers. However, Eir…