From the maybe-if-we-just-say-it’s-not-our-fault? dept, Gareth Corfield reports: Ticketmaster is telling its customers that it wasn’t to blame for the infection of its site by a strain of the Magecart cred-stealing malware – despite embedding third-party Javascript into its payments page. In a letter to Reg reader Mark, lawyers for the controversy-struck event ticket sales website said that Ticketmaster “is…
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Amsterdam data leak identifies secret AirBnB complaints
Janene Pieters reports: A data leak affecting the municipality of Amsterdam revealed the names and addresses of residents upset about the city’s home share policy. In one case a phone number was also leaked, AT5 reports. The data was not recorded on the municipality’s website in an unrecognizable way, according to the Amsterdam broadcaster. Around…
R.I. pension system sues Google for not disclosing breach
Donita Taylor reports: Rhode Island is suing the parent company of Google for hiding a security breach that affected 52.5 million users, state General Treasurer Seth Magaziner stated in a news release Tuesday. “Google had an obligation to tell its users and investors that private information wasn’t being protected,” Magaziner stated in the release. […]…
Ditch Google+ now.
David Thacker of G Suite writes that Google is abandoning Google+ even sooner than it had originally planned. A recent bug affecting more than 50 million users seemed to be the death knell for the product. In October, we announced that we’d be sunsetting the consumer version of Google+ and its APIs because of the significant challenges…
Saipem servers suffer cyber attack in Middle East
Stephen Jewkes reports: Italian oil services company Saipem said it had identified a cyber attack out of India on Monday that had primarily affected its servers in the Middle East. […] Saipem’s head of digital and innovation, Mauro Piasere, told Reuters the attack had originated in Chennai, India. Servers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab…
Equifax Breach “Entirely Preventable”: House Oversight Committee
From the good folks at EPIC.org: In a report released today, the House Committee on Oversight declared that the Equifax breach, which affected 148 million U.S. consumers, was “entirely preventable.” The breach, one of the largest in U.S. history, compromised the authenticating details, including dates of birth and social security numbers, of more than half of American consumers….