Jeff John Roberts reports: A controversial cryptocurrency project known as Bancor—which last year raised $153 million to create a digital token exchange—hit another stumble: On Monday afternoon, the company announced hackers had raided one of its online wallets to the tune of $23.5 million. News of the robbery came hours after Bancor disclosed it had…
Category: Business Sector
Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s notify customers of attack
Thanks to Catalin Cimpanu of Bleeping Computer. Catalin called my attention to a notification from Macy’s about a breach affecting Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com customers. I had actually tweeted about that breach notification last week but I seem to have forgotten to post anything here. What I had tweeted was: I don’t often see this kind…
Security Firm Sued for Failing to Detect Malware That Caused a 2009 Breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two insurance companies are suing a cyber-security firm to recover insurance fees paid to a customer after the security firm failed to detect malware on the client’s network for months, an issue that led to one of the biggest security breaches of the 2000s. Read more on Bleeping Computer about how Lexington Insurance…
User data exposed in Domain Factory hosting security breach
Charlie Osborne reports: German hosting provider Domain Factory has experienced a data breach which has exposed customer data. Last week, the company said [translated] an unknown threat actor posted claims on the Domain Factory forum which suggested they had managed to compromise the firm’s systems and access information. Following this statement, Domain Factory pulled its…
Police probe after adoption agency’s files found strewn on Tel Aviv street
Times of Israel reports: A Tel Aviv resident was shocked to find thousands of highly confidential documents from a leading Israeli adoption agency strewn on a sidewalk in the city. The files from the Taf adoption agency listed names of hundreds of adoptive parents and children between the years 1999-2016, and in most cases included…
In: Yatra.com breach: How to check if your data is compromised, and what to do if it is
Shilpa S. Ranipeta reports: Online travel bookings platform Yatra.com reportedly had five million records exposed in a data breach back in 2013. That means if you have an account on Yatra.com, your data is possibly in the hands of someone who shouldn’t have it. This information was tweeted by a website called ‘Have I Been…