Natasha Bernal reports: Fortnum & Mason has admitted that thousands of customers have had their personal data stolen in a cyber attack on the upmarket grocer. The retailer said that around 23,000 of its shoppers had seen their names, email addresses and home addresses, as well as social media handles, compromised by hackers. The breach occurred…
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Chinese police bust 7 suspects in large data theft operation
Xinhua reports on a huge bust: Police in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region announced Friday that they have arrested seven suspects for stealing more than 2 billion items of personal data. The data included people’s email accounts and passwords, ID numbers, cellphone numbers and payment accounts from more than 60 countries and regions, said…
FBI: Man arrested at Rochester tanning salon stole photos, passwords from 150 victims
WHAM reports: A Rochester man previously charged with recording a woman at a tanning salon in Rochester without her permission may have stolen personal information and photos from as many as 150 victims, according to an FBI investigation. On December 7, 2016, investigators with the Rochester Police Department said a woman at the Zoom Tan…
Typeform Announces Breach After Hacker Grabs Backup File
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Barcelona-based online survey and form building service Typeform announced a data breach today after an unknown attacker downloaded a backup file containing sensitive customer information. The backup file contained data gathered by Typeform customers through surveys and online forms up until May 3, 2018. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Linux distro hacked on GitHub, “all code considered compromised”
Paul Ducklin writes: Data breaches are always bad news, and this one is peculiarly bad. Gentoo, a popular distribution of Linux, has had its GitHub repository hacked. Hacked, as in “totally pwned”, taken over, and modified; so far, no one seems to be sure quite how or why. That’s the bad news. Fortunately (we like…
Adidas data-security breach could involve “a few million customers”
Kate Gibson reports: Adidas AG says data involving millions of customers may be in the hands of hackers following a possible security breach of its U.S. website, news that adds the athletic apparel company to a growing list of companies and institutions targeted in cyber attacks. Adidas on Thursday said it became aware of the…