Eric Katz reports: Current federal employees, retirees and others impacted by widespread breach of personal data maintained by the Office of Personnel Management took advantage of only a small portion of the money made available in a settlement agreement following the 2015 hack. Plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit reached a settlement in 2022 with…
Year: 2025
No need to hack when it’s leaking: Roomster edition (1)
There are leaks and then there are leaks. Hundreds of thousands of people who shared houses via Roomster might want to say a mental “Thank you” to the researcher known as @JayeLTee, who discovered a long-standing data leak and took steps to get it secured. As JayeLTee relates, he first spotted the misconfigured server in…
Hacked on Christmas, DEphoto starts notifying customers, only to be attacked again
The threat actor known as 0mid16B contacted DataBreaches this morning to alert this site to a breach involving a U.K. photo business, DEphoto (DEphoto[.]biz). DEphoto is an established business for school, sports, club, and event photography. According to 0mid16B, they attacked DEphoto on December 25, and acquired the personal information of 555,952 customers, 429,597 orders…