Sark Technologies is proud of its reservation and management system, SuperINN. They describe it as the first web-based property management system designed specifically for the small lodging system. They also advertise that SuperINN easily integrates with third-party sites and safely processes and stores credit cards. On August 2, however, their external counsel notified consumers and…
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AT&T Insiders Bribed With Over $1 Million To Unlock 2 Million Phones And Hack Their Employer, DOJ Claims
Thomas Brewster reports: A 34-year-old from Pakistan has been extradited from Hong Kong to the U.S., over allegations he bribed AT&T employees over five years to unlock more than 2 million phones. He was also accused of hacking into AT&T computers. It cost AT&T millions, whilst the insiders were paid more than $1 million in…
CafePress Hacked, 23M Accounts Compromised. Is Yours One Of Them?
Davey Winder reports: CafePress, the custom T-shirt and merchandise company, acquired by Snapfish for more than $25 million (£20 million) in November 2018, has been hacked. According to various reports, the breach that compromised more than 23 million accounts happened on February 20. Is yours one of them? What is known about the CafePress breach?…
Security breach brings down shutters on 7Pay
Michael Carroll reports: Bosses at retailer 7-Eleven Japan called time on its fledgling 7Pay mobile payment service, after deeming attempts to recover from a major security breach were too onerous. The service launched on 1 July offering cashless payments in the retailer’s chain of convenience stores, but within days the set-up was attacked by fraudsters…
One Misconfig (JIRA) to Leak Them All- Including NASA and Hundreds of Fortune 500 Companies!
Avinash Jain writes: Some months back, I published an article on “Exposed JIRA server leaks NASA staff and project data” in which I was able to find NASA staff details, their username, their email ids along with their internal project details which were getting leaked by one of their tools — JIRA which is an…
Ikea says sorry for customer data breach due to email gaffe
Malavika Menon reports: Swedish retailer Ikea yesterday apologised to affected customers in Singapore after the company inserted 410 individual e-mail addresses in the wrong message field of a promotional mailer and sent it out. A spokesman for Ikea Singapore said the incident occurred at 4.57pm last Thursday and that it “regretfully made an error of…