Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker going by the name of Gnosticplayers has put up for sale another set of hacked databases on a Dark Web marketplace. This is the third round of hacked databases the hacker has published on the Dark Web marketplace known as Dream Market. He previously posted a batch of 16 databases…
Category: Business Sector
You should have told us: Company says email was hacked, sues its insurance broker for not advising it to get computer fraud insurance
Noddy A. Fernandez reports: A gift distribution company is suing a global insurance broker, citing alleged broker malpractice. Hampton-Haddon Marketing Corp. (HHMC) filed a complaint on Jan. 28 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Willis of Tennessee Inc. and Willis Towers Watson PLC, alleging the defendants breached their duty…
Update: Wendy’s settles financial firms’ lawsuit over data breach for $50 mln
Dena Aubin reports: Restaurant company Wendy’s has agreed to pay $50 million to resolve a 2016 lawsuit by financial institutions nationwide alleging that the company’s negligence allowed hackers to steal credit and debit card information in a 2015 data breach. Disclosed in a filing on Wednesday in Pittsburgh federal court, the settlement will be paid…
Major Crypto Brokerage Coinmama Reports 450,000 Users Affected by Data Breach
CoinTelegraph reports: Israel-based crypto brokerage Coinmama — which allows users to purchase Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) using a credit card — has suffered a major data breach affecting 450,000 of its users. The incident was disclosed in an official company announcement on Feb. 15. The breach is reportedly part of a mammoth, multi-platform hack…
Ixigo CEO denies breach of user data; says payments information is not stored
Sandeep Soni reports: Two days after 18 million users’ data of online travel and hotel booking company Ixigo was reportedly hacked, its founder and CEO Aloke Bajpai has confirmed to FE Online that the company has not found any evidence so far to confirm the data breach. “We have not found any evidence to confirm…
Hacker Breaches Dozens of Sites, Puts 127 Million New Records Up for Sale
Swati Khandelwal reports: A hacker who was selling details of nearly 620 million online accounts stolen from 16 popular websites has now put up a second batch of 127 million records originating from 8 other sites for sale on the dark web. Last week, The Hacker News received an email from a Pakistani hacker who…