Wendy Davis reports: LinkedIn can’t rely on a 33-year-old anti-hacking law to prevent prevent the analytics firm HiQ Labs from mining data, a federal appellate court ruled Monday. The ruling, issued by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, leaves in place an injunction that requires LinkedIn to allow publicly available data…
Category: Business Sector
Security breach on Pepperfry exposes details of users; now plugged
Pranav Hegde reports: A major security flaw was detected on online furniture store Pepperfry’s website, which could have allowed users to sign in to another registered user’s account. Pepperfry has claimed that the bug was fixed within an hour of being detected. Security researcher Ehraz Ahmed found the bug on Pepperfry’s website, which could have…
Monster.com says a third party exposed user data but didn’t tell anyone
Zack Whittaker reports: An exposed web server storing résumés of job seekers — including from recruitment site Monster — has been found online. The server contained résumés and CVs for job applicants spanning 2014 and 2017, many of which included private information like phone numbers and home addresses, but also email addresses and a person’s…
DK-Lok data breach exposes global enterprise client data, internal emails
Charlie Osborne reports: Perhaps, one day, the continual stream of data leaks and cybersecurity breaches stemming from open databases will make organizations sit up, take notice, check their IT infrastructure, and resolve any security problems they find. Today is not that day it seems for DK-Lok, the latest entry in a long list of companies…
A huge database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online
Zack Whittaker reports: Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. The exposed server contained over 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, including 133 million records on U.S.-based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the U.K., and another with more than 50 million…
15 Chinese Arrested for Bribing Internet Café Administrators to Mine Crypto
Vincent He reports: Police in Henyang, a city of south-central China’s Hunan Province, has arrested fifteen men suspected of stealing electricity from Internet café to mine cryptocurrencies, according to a report by local media. During the past four months from June 2017 to July 2019, the cryptocurrencies they stole had been sold amounting to over hundred million yuan…