Zack Whittaker reports: Navionics, an electronic navigational chart maker owned by tech giant Garmin, has secured an exposed database that contained hundreds of thousands of customer records. The MongoDB database wasn’t secured with a password, allowing anyone who knew where to look to access and download the data. The company’s main products give boat, yacht…
Month: October 2018
Lake Worth Utilities customers may have had credit card information stolen
WPTV reports: Customers of the City of Lake Worth Utilities who utilized the online credit card payment option to pay their bill may have experienced a possible breach of their credit card information. Lake Worth Utilities is encouraging all customers to check their statements for any fraudulent transactions that occurred between August 28 and October…
Tech worker in Central Pennsylvania accused of stealing customers’ nude photos
Adam Hermann reports: A 23-year-old tech employee from York, Pennsylvania, is accused of stealing nude photos from customers’ cellphones. Cristian Adonis Santiago, 23, allegedly sent the personal photos to his own email account while working on customers’ phones in the store at an authorized retailer for Verizon Wireless, according to York Area Regional Police. Read…
Baer ‘Whistleblower’ Cleared by Top Court in Data-Theft Case
Hugo Miller reports: A former Julius Baer banker who leaked documents from a Cayman Islands subsidiary was cleared of breaking Swiss banking secrecy by Switzerland’s top court, creating possible problems for how the Alpine nation’s banks manage their foreign units. The Supreme Court voted 3-2 to reject the arguments of Zurich prosecutors who had appealed…
Eventbrite Facing Class Action Lawsuit Following Ticketfly “Cyber Incident”
Brittany Provost reports: Back in May, we reported that the Eventbrite-owned ticketing service Ticketfly fell victim to a massive cyber attack. The attack ultimately affected 27 million users. Today, a woman named Shanice Kloss filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S.-based event management website. Following the sudden attack that exposed millions of customers’ private information, including “names,…
Five years later, Italian police identify hacker behind 2013 NASA hacks
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A 25-year-old Italian man pleaded guilty this week for defacing NASA websites and 60 other Italian government sites back in 2013. The suspect, identified only by his initials of Z.R., was a member of the “Master Italian Hackers Team” that claimed responsibility for the hacks at the time on social media. Italian…