Memphis-based Titan Manufacturing and Distributing has been notifying consumers that its computer system had been compromised by malware during the period of November 23, 2017 to October 25, 2018. Anyone placing an order on their site during that time might have had their shopping cart data — personal information plus card data including CVV —…
Month: January 2019
Ca: RMOW says municipal website subject to security breach
Brandon Barrett reports: The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is reporting that its municipal website, whistler.ca, has been breached—but it assured the public that the situation has been resolved. In a release sent Friday afternoon, the RMOW said that the breach, which was first discovered Dec. 28, appears to be an attempt to redirect web…
California Department of Insurance Vulnerability Potentially Exposed Thousands of SSN and Other Personal Information
DataBreaches.net was recently contacted by an Indian cybersecurity firm, Banbreach, about a vulnerability involving the California Department of Insurance site. According to Banbreach, they notified the California Department of Insurance (CDI) that interactive.web.insurance.ca.gov was hosting an oracle reporting server that had generated more than 24,450 reports in the prior 24 hours. Most of the reports…
Italian Trade Union of State Police Officers Hacked & Defaced by The Anonymous Anarchist Agency
Hacktivism is still a thing, although we may not see as much of it here in the U.S. these days. The headlines about hundreds of German politicians having their details dumped may have garnered more attention here, but there have been other ongoing campaigns that have tended to be ignored by U.S. media. One such…
Marriott says less than 383 million guests impacted by breach, not 500 million
Catalin Cimpanu reports that Marriott has updated its assessment of the impact of a massive data breach disclosed in November. On a positive note, fewer people were affected than the 500 million originally estimated: “Marriott has identified approximately 383 million records as the upper limit for the total number of guest records that were involved…
Dublin’s tram service website taken offline after being held to ransom
Luke Irwin reports: Luas, Dublin’s tram service, has taken its website offline after a criminal hacker hijacked the site and left a ransom demand. The crook claims to have breached Luas’s systems and has threatened to publish its customers’ data if the organisation doesn’t pay 1 bitcoin (about €3,375) in the next five days. Read…