ASI Computers is notifying some of their customers after discovering on November 1, 2018 that usernames and passwords on a support web site had been hacked prior to December 2016. From their notification to California: ASI confirmed which credentials had been exposed by the following day, November 2, 2018. ASI determined the affected credentials related…
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Ticketmaster tells customer it’s not at fault for site’s Magecart malware pwnage
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…
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…