Mary Kihoro reports: LocalBitcoins, a peer to peer Bitcoin exchange trading platform, has announced that its site has been exposed to a security breach from unknown third parties. However, as of now the team has managed to stop the attack and re-enabled outbound transactions. The platform is currently assessing the number users that have been…
Category: Business Sector
DailyMotion discloses credential stuffing attack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Video sharing platform DailyMotion announced on Friday that it was the victim of a credential stuffing attack, ZDNet has learned. […] According to an email sent out to impacted customers, and seen by ZDNet, the credential stuffing started last weekend, on January 19, and appears to have been successful in some cases,…
Millions of bank loan and mortgage documents have leaked online (UPDATED)
Update: One day later, the story of the OpticsML breach got much worse when Bob Diachenko found a second exposure involving the vendor. Read about it here. Original post: Zack Whittaker reports on a leak discovered by Bob Diachenko of Security Discovery: A trove of more than 24 million financial and banking documents, representing tens…
Class action settlement reached in Sonic data breach case
There’s been a settlement reached in a Sonic breach first reported by KrebsOnSecurity in 2017. KFOR reports that the settlement notice includes a statement: “The Settlement includes all residents of the United States of America who made a purchase at any one of the 325 impacted Sonic Drive-In locations and paid using a credit or…
Why doesn’t Twitter have a way to notify them of leaks or concerns outside of a bug bounty program?
L33tdawg writes: Twitter has owned up to a privacy goof that exposed some Android users’ private tweets. That would be bad enough if the problem existed for an hour, or a day, or a month. But unfortunately for Twitter (and affected users) the problem was present from November 3 2014 until January 14 2019. That’s…
Graeter’s: Website breach could compromise 12,000 customers’ credit card data
WLWT reports: Cincinnati-based Graeter’s ice cream has issued notices to thousands of customers: Your credit card information may be compromised. The ice cream chain sent out 12,000 notices to customers who made purchases on Graeter’s website last year, saying that an “unauthorized code” was added to the website’s checkout page. As a result, thousands of…