Akash Grimath reports: Thomas Silkjær, the creative director at 2K/DENMARK, outlined a “potential security breach” at GateHub might have caused users to lose approximately 23 million XRP. GateHub is a wallet and gateway for to safely store/transact XRP. In a Medium article, Silkjær wrote that the breach was noticed on June 1 in a transaction of…
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Jewish dating app JCrush exposed user data and private messages
Zack Whittaker reports: A security lapse at JCrush, a dating app designed for the Jewish community, left a database open without a password, exposing sensitive user records and private messages to anyone who knew where to look. The site’s backend database had around 200,000 user records, according to security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar,…
Ca: Weight Loss Grants posts customer health information without consent
Sean O’Shea reports: A company that promised to pay customers for losing weight has posted personal information about clients, including their names, weights, weight loss goals and even facial photographs on its website. Weight Loss Grants revealed the personal information without clients’ consent after news reports described how the organization failed to make payments to…
Report: Theta360 Leak Potentially Exposed Millions of Users’ Public and Private Photographs
VPNMentor reports that their research team has discovered that Theta360 inadvertently left users’ photos — even those intended to be private — exposed. The leak exposed at least 11 million public and private photographs. The data breach exposed thousands of users’ photos, many of whom chose to keep their images private. The breach did not expose…
UK: Leicester City FC reveal details of ‘criminal online security breach’ related to online shop
Sam Dimmer reports: Leicester City say users of their online store had their personal and financial details compromised following a security breach. The club say the breach affected some users between April 23 and May 4. In a statement released today they say that supporters whose details were compromised were contacted immediately and told what…
Citrix Sued For Not Securing Employee Info Before Data Breach
Sergiu Gatlan reports: A class action complaint was filed by an ex-employee of Citrix for damages suffered following the security breach which allowed hackers to access Citrix’s internal assets for roughly six months and to steal sensitive personal information of both current and former employees. The plaintiff is Lindsey Howard, “a resident and citizen of…