AAP reports: A Sydney IT contractor has been charged over a data breach at a property evaluation firm that allegedly affected more than 270,000 people, cost the company more than $8 million and resulted in troves of personal information being uploaded onto the dark web. Stephen Grant allegedly accessed and published more than 170,000 data…
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218M Words with Friends Players Compromised in Data Breach
Dark Reading reports: A cybercriminal operating under the alias Gnosticplayers has broken into the Words with Friends database and gained access to 218 million player records, The Hacker News reports. […] Zynga issued a disclosure on September 12 to say some player data may have been obtained by unauthorized parties; now, a new report sheds light…
Comodo Forums Breached, Data of Over 170,000 Users Up for Grabs
Ionut Ilascu reports: Account data belonging to more than half of all Comodo Forums users has been stolen and is now traded online. The breach was possible by exploiting a vulnerability in the software that powers the forum. Comodo today published a security notice informing users that an intruder may have gained access to the…
CafePress’s confusing incident response
On August 5, this site noted a report on Forbes that CafePress had been hacked. I had not used CafePress in years, so I was curious to see whether my data would be involved, but I didn’t hear anything from them about the February, 2019 hack. On September 24, Graham Cluley reported that CafePress was…
Former Yahoo software engineer pleads guilty to using work access to hack into Yahoo users’ personal accounts
SAN JOSE – Reyes Daniel Ruiz pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose today to hacking into the accounts of thousands of Yahoo users in search of private and personal records, primarily sexual images and videos of the account holders, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent…
After two nights in jail, St. Louis lawyer ordered to pay $775,000 to her former firm for copying client files
Joel Currier reports that a former law firm employee who allegedly helped herself to copies of 22,000 files one week before she resigned for a new position elsewhere, has been ordered to pay her former employee more than $775,000. St. Louis lawyer Chelsea Merta, who was found in contempt of court earlier this year, has…