Decrypt.co reports: Crypto exchange Bittrex today announced that it will delist privacy coins Monero (XMR), ZCash and Dash on Friday, January 15, at 23:00 UTC. The Bermuda-registered exchange did not provide a reason for the delistings, but all three are privacy coins—a class of cryptocurrencies that offer untraceable transactions. Monero is private by default, and…
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Microsoft says Russians hacked its network, viewing source code
Ellen Nakashima reports: Russian government hackers engaged in a sweeping series of breaches of government and private-sector networks have been able to penetrate deeper into Microsoft’s systems than previously known, gaining access to potentially valuable source code, the tech giant said Thursday. The firm previously acknowledged that it had inadvertently downloaded a software patch used…
IndiGo Says Some Data May be Compromised in Server Breach
Ragini Saxena reports: IndiGo, India’s biggest airline, said some segments of its data servers were breached in a hacking incident in December, which may compromise some data. “There is a possibility that some internal documents may get uploaded by the hackers on public websites and platforms,” IndiGo said in a statement Thursday. “We realise the…
ROMWE’s press release reflects an abundance of …. something, but not caution.
This week, I drafted a commentary mocking ROMWE’s for claiming that they were notifying their consumers about a breach out of “an abundance of caution.” Then I decided to try to be nice, and I trashed it. Yesterday, Marco de Felice wrote a piece about the breach that shows that it was even worse than…
Italy’s Ho-Mobile database with 2.5m accounts allegedly stolen, sold
Sudais Asif reports: What sounds like a nightmare for a company? Waking up to the news that the data of their customers is being sold online. That’s exactly what has happened to Ho-Mobile, an Italian phone service provider owned by Vodafone Italy. Apparently, the personal data of over 2.5 million Ho-Mobile’s customers is being sold…
Ticketmaster Pays $10 Million Criminal Fine for Intrusions into Competitor’s Computer Systems
Ticketmaster Used Passwords Unlawfully Retained by a Former Employee of a Competitor to Access Computer Systems in Scheme to “Choke Off” the Victim’s Business Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Ticketmaster L.L.C. (Ticketmaster or the Company) agreed to pay a $10 million fine to resolve charges that it repeatedly accessed without authorization the computer…