Zack Whittaker reports: A little-known page on Comcast’s Xfinity website was exposing customers’ account information to anyone — or any app — on a customer’s network. An anonymous security researcher dropped ZDNet an email, explaining that an API used by the internet giant could be tricked into returning customer data, including account numbers, a customer’s…
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Restaurant chain PDQ says customers’ credit card info was hacked
Alfred Charles reports: PDQ, a fast-casual dining restaurant with several locations in the Triangle, is warning customers about a cyber attack on its computer systems in which hackers were able to access or acquire personal information from the chain’s customers who paid with credit cards. In a statement posted to the company’s website, the chain…
Apple comments on erroneous reports of iPhone brute force passcode hack
Rene Ritchie reports: Update: Apple has provided me with the following statement, which should close the door on speculation surrounding this purported exploit: “The recent report about a passcode bypass on iPhone was in error, and a result of incorrect testing” Yesterday, a security researcher reported on a possible brute-force passcode attack that affected iPhone…
Former worker can’t sue Coca-Cola over data breach, U.S. Court says
Matt Miller reports: A former Coca-Cola employee has failed to convince a federal appeals court to revive his lawsuit against the soft drink colossus over a data breach. Shane Enslin simply has no proof that unauthorized charges to his online accounts stemmed from a Coke tech’s theft of company computers containing Enslin’s personal information, a…
Tokyo court: Data in Benesse leak not private enough for redress
A court opinion out of Tokyo may make it harder for plaintiffs in breach lawsuits in Japan to demonstrate harm or injury worthy of compensation. The breach and lawsuit against Benesse Corporation have been reported previously on this site in 2014 and 2015. Takuya Kitazawa reports: The Tokyo District Court rejected plaintiffs’ demands over a huge…
New Panama Papers Leak Includes Offshore Links To Lionel Messi, Cartier, Argentine Leader
Ryan Chittum and Will Fitzgibbon report: Two years after the Panama Papers rocked the offshore financial system, a fresh document leak from the law firm Mossack Fonseca reveals new offshore details about an array of global elites, including soccer superstar Lionel Messi, the Argentine president’s family and a former senior Kuwaiti official convicted of looting…