Heather Kelly reports: For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday. The bug, which affected those users from May 18 to May 22, occurred while Facebook was testing a new feature….
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Personal data of Astro customers offered for sale online
Vijandren reports: Last year, when we first reported on the massive 46.2 million telco data breach, we cautioned that if strict measures are not put in place, there will always be opportunists trying to make a quick buck by selling off personal data to the highest bidder. Earlier this year, our crawlers stumbled upon an…
Information on potential data breach at PageUp may affect Australia Post
June 5 – Australia Post is managing an issue following advice from PageUp, a third party supplier that has helped us process external job applications since October 2016, that they’ve experienced a system breach. We are among a number of large organisations who have been using PageUp. PageUp has provided more information here: https://www.pageuppeople.com/unauthorised-activity-on-it-system/ At this…
MyHeritage Genealogy Site Announces Mega Breach Affecting 92 Million Accounts
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Family genealogy and DNA testing site MyHeritage announced on Monday a security breach during which an attacker made off with account details for over 92 million MyHeritage users. In a statement on its website, MyHeritage said it became aware of the incident on Monday, the same day of the announcement. The incident…
Morinaga Milk customer data stolen after website hacking
JiJi Press reports: Morinaga Milk Industry Co. said Monday that personal data on up to 92,822 customers may have been stolen as its health food shopping website was hacked. Announcing the results of an external investigation of the unauthorized access case, the major Japanese dairy products maker said that credit card information belonging to up…
Hacker Defaces Ticketfly’s Website, Steals Customer Database
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A hacker briefly took over Ticketfly’s website, defacing it with a picture of the V for Vendetta character and a claim of responsibility. The hacker also sent Motherboard files of what they say is employee and customer information taken from Ticketfly’s database. “Ticketfly HacKeD By IsHaKdZ,” read the message, according to a…