Richard Smirke reports: A British law firm has launched a £5 million ($6.5 million) legal action against Ticketmaster following last year’s security breach, which is believed to have affected up to 40,000 U.K. customers. […] The U.K. arm of Ticketmaster detected a major security breach on June 23, 2018 when it identified malicious software on…
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Chinese companies have leaked over 590 million resumes via open databases
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Chinese companies have leaked a whopping 590 million resumes in the first three months of the year, ZDNet has learned from multiple security researchers. Most of the resume leaks have occurred because of poorly secured MongoDB databases and ElasticSearch servers that have been left exposed online without a password, or have ended up online…
AeroGarden maker says hackers stole months of credit card data
Zack Whittaker reports: Bad news for home gardeners: criminals might have your credit card data. AeroGrow, the maker of the at-home garden kit AeroGarden, said in a letter to customers that its website had credit card scraping malware for more than four months. The company said anyone who bought something through its website between October…
VoterVoice database leaks email addresses, messages to elected officials
Teri Robinson reports: An unsecured database at VoterVoice exposed a trove of personal information, including more than 300,000 unique email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers of people who have sent messages to legislators or participated in campaigns around hot political topics through “the grassroots advocacy system.” Read more on SC Magazine.
More than 540 million Facebook app datasets found exposed – UpGuard researchers
UpGuard reports: The UpGuard Cyber Risk team can now report that two more third-party developed Facebook app datasets have been found exposed to the public internet. One, originating from the Mexico-based media company Cultura Colectiva, weighs in at 146 gigabytes and contains over 540 million records detailing comments, likes, reactions, account names, FB IDs and…
So your payment card hasn’t been misused after you used it at Planet Hollywood or Buca di Beppo? Don’t breathe a sigh of relief just yet.
Several days ago, Earl Enterprises, the hospitality industry firm behind several well-known restaurant brands like Planet Hollywood, Buca di Beppo, Earl of Sandwich, Chicken Guy!, Mixology, and Tequila Taqueria announced a security breach of its payment card processing systems. Their announcement came as no surprise to Brian Krebs, who had found Buca di Beppo customer…