Ben Grubb reports: A four-month-old Australian Bitcoin bank holding more than $1 million has been hacked, leaving thousands of customers in the lurch including a man who claims he was holding the virtual currency to buy a house with his girlfriend. The alleged hacking happened on both October 23 and 26, with the service’s operator,…
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CT: Stamford Cablevision employee stole customer credit card info at walk-in center
Greg Canuel reports: A former employee of the Cablevision walk-in center in Norwalk was accused Wednesday of stealing customers’ credit card information, according to police reports. Residents from Norwalk and Stamford contacted the Norwalk Police Department in August after noticing fraudulent charges on their credit card bills, police said. Both reported that they had visited…
Adobe breach even bigger than we knew
Yes, the Adobe breach is back in the news as some have discovered that a data dump posted online contains the email addresses, encrypted passwords and password hints stored in clear text from 152 million Adobe user accounts. Embarrassingly, one report notes that 1.9 million Adobe users used “123456” as their password.
Sunrise Calendar Users Are Being Alerted About A Security Breach
Bryan Wolfe reports: Sunrise Atelier, Inc. is alerting its Sunrise Calendar users that its database provider has experienced a security breach. As a result, users are being asked to change their iCloud passwords just to be safe. According to a posting on the Sunrise blog, and email to users, MongoHQ servers were breached. Read more on AppAdvice.com….
XSplit Password Reset Alert – Protecting Your Twitch Account
The following was posted yesterday on Twitch: Attention Broadcasters: If you are currently or have in the past used XSplit to stream to Twitch, please read this carefully. It has come to our attention that various data on XSplit’s servers have been compromised. In particular, your XSplit credentials (account name and password), as well as…
Are we getting blasé?
This morning, an excited tweeter urged people to nominate Adobe’s breach to the Guiness Book of World Records because it reportedly involved 150 million usernames and hashed passwords. I responded that there was already a breach on the books involving 150 million – the Shanghai Roadway D&B Marketing Services Co. Ltd breach, so at 150M,…