Rachel Eddie reports: Kitchenware brand Neoflam Australia has mistakenly published its internal warranty records, exposing the private information of more than 7500 of its customers, The New Daily can reveal. A page under the brand’s website revealed the full name, age or age bracket, gender, phone number, home address and email of customers from between 2010 and…
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Infidelity dating site Ashley Madison still gets thousands of new users every day — here’s why
Lindsay Dodgson reports: If you sign up to Ashley Madison, you don’t have to think about what you’re doing as cheating, but “outsourcing your sex life.” “In 2018 we expect our life partners are going to be everything to us — they’ve got to be my best friend, they’ve got to be sexually compatible, they…
Hackers accessed personal information of 30 million Facebook users
Donnie O’Sullivan reports: Almost 30 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and email addresses were accessed by hackers in the biggest security breach in the company’s history, Facebook said Friday. The attackers accessed even more details on 14 million of those users, including the area where they live, their relationship status, their religion, and part of…
MindBody-owned FitMetrix exposed millions of user records — thanks to servers without passwords
Zack Whittaker reports: FitMetrix, a fitness technology and performance tracking company owned by gym booking giant Mindbody, has exposed millions of user records because it left several of its servers without a password. The company builds fitness tracking software for gyms and group classes that displays heart rate and other fitness metric information for interactive…
Hackers breach web hosting provider for the second time in the past year
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The South African branch of Hetzner, a well-known web hosting provider, has suffered its second security breach in the past year, ZDNet has learned from the company’s customers. According to an email affected users received this week, this second breach came to light last week, on Friday. Read more on ZDNet.
Senators request Google provide internal memo reportedly urging Google+ cover-up
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Three Republican senators have sent a letter to Google today demanding the company hand over an internal memo based on which Google decided to cover up a Google+ data leak instead of going public as most companies do. The existence of this internal memo came to light on Monday in a Wall…