Technic forums database breach, as posted tonight on their blog: If you have an account on our forums or wiki, and are using your password somewhere else, change it immediately. You should still be fine, but this is a necessary precaution. Our forums and wiki got compromised by an unknown third-party. On Friday a user…
Category: Business Sector
A popular Q&A website says hackers stole information on 100 million users
Saheli Roy Choudhury reports: Quora, the popular question-and-answer website, said Monday evening that hackers broke into one of its systems and compromised information from approximately 100 million users. CEO Adam D’Angelo said in a blog post the company discovered last week that a malicious third party had gained unauthorized access to one of its systems….
Misconfigured Locksmith Services web servers exposed sensitive information
Darryl Burke reports: On Wed Nov 23rd, we discovered a misconfiguration on the web servers of the company “Locksmith Services” which is a US based national dispatch service for Locksmiths. The misconfiguration on the website dispatchlogin.net exposed the; audio recording of calls, emails, customer contact information, photos of drivers licenses and passports, photos of credit…
Judge Orders Software Exec to Turn Over Laptop After He Leaked Data on Facebook
Kartikay Mehrotra reports: The co-founder of a software company was ordered by a judge to surrender his laptop to a forensic expert after admitting he turned over confidential documents about Facebook Inc. to the U.K. Parliament in violation of a U.S. court order. Sensitive internal Facebook records that were supposed to remain sealed in a…
In: Ex-employee who stole firm’s data sold to competitor arrested
PTI reports: An ex-employee, accused of stealing data of a US-based recruitment firm and selling it to its competitor, was arrested here Friday, police said. The accused, Arun Kumar Pandey, in his late 20s, was arrested near Sab Mall in Sector 27 of the city, a police official said. A complaint was made by the…
Marriott says data breach compromised info of up to 500 million guests
Erik Ortiz reports: Marriott International said Friday that up to 500 million guests’ information may have been accessed as part of a data breach of its Starwood guest reservation database. The world’s largest hotel chain said it determined on Nov. 19 that an “unauthorized party” had accessed the database as early as 2014. Read more…