An 18-year-old youth from Oosterhout has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in some of last week’s cyber attacks on the tax office and IT news site Tweakers. The youth, who was picked up last Thursday by the police high tech crime unit, is also thought to have been behind a string of other attacks…
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Man sues T-Mobile for allegedly failing to stop hackers from draining his cryptocurrency account
Shannon Liao reports: A man sued T-Mobile on Sunday, claiming that the company’s lack of security allowed hackers to enter his wireless account last fall and steal cryptocoins worth thousands of dollars. Carlos Tapang of Washington state accuses T-Mobile of having “improperly allowed wrongdoers to access” his wireless account on November 7th last year. The…
12,000 Social Media Influencers, Mostly Women, Exposed by Marketing Firm Data Breach
Dell Cameron reports on a data leak involving Octoly: More than 12,000 prominent social media influencers from YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and the gaming platform Twitch were exposed last month by a data breach at a marketing firm that pairs online stars with top brands seeking product reviews and endorsements, according to researchers at the security…
Trump’s CFPB Chief Pulls Back on Equifax Data Breach Probe: Report
Patrick Rucker reports: Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe of how Equifax Inc. failed to protect the personal data of millions of consumers, according to people familiar with the matter. Equifax (EFX.N) said in September that hackers stole personal data it had collected on some…
Hack The Box discloses email gaffe
Nowadays, you are more likely to first learn of breaches on Twitter than from the entity’s site or email, as this thread today from Hack The Box demonstrates: Dear users – we apologise unreservedly for the recent disclosure of email addresses. A statement will follow shortly regarding the cause, impact, and preventative measures that we’ll…
HomeApplicationsXGimp & MaxiPDF apps leak thousands of private photos and docs online XGimp & MaxiPDF apps leak thousands of private photos and docs online
Gaurav Shukla writes: In what could be termed as a massive security breach, three Android apps offered by developer DMobileAndroid were found to be inadvertently sharing thousands of private photos and documents online. The apps offered by the developer are XGimp, MaxiPDF and Docswork, each of which has been downloaded anywhere between 100,000 and 500,000…