Jaren Kerr reports: The owner of a ride-sharing app created to increase safety and security for women drivers and riders has suspended its services after learning that its user data was vulnerable to a breach. DriveHer, which launched in Toronto in March and has more than 1,000 downloads, was created to both empower women and…
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Facebook hackers could have collected personal data of 2 billion users
Craig Timberg, Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin of The Washington Post report: Facebook said Wednesday that “malicious actors” took advantage of search tools on its platform, making it possible for them to discover the identities and collect information on most of its 2 billion users worldwide. The revelation came amid rising acknowledgment by Facebook about…
What to Know About the Latest Data Breach Hitting Sears and Delta Customers
David Meyer reports: Both Sears and Delta Air Lines are facing the exposure of some of their customers’ credit card information, following a data breach at a mutual contractor. The company, a customer services operation called [24]7.ai, suffered the breach between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12 last year. It said in a statement that the…
Panerabread.com Leaks Millions of Customer Records
Brian Krebs and I were both on the same mission today – to get Panera Breach to secure their customer data. I had been alerted to the situation by a reader who saw a paste explaining it all and revealing some customer data. Brian heard about it earlier from security researcher Dylan Houlihan, who had first…
Equifax has been sending some consumers hit by its data breach wrong letters
The last thing they needed was more bad press, right? Javier E. David of CNBC reports: Equifax, which suffered a massive data breach in 2017 that exposed the personal information of nearly 150 million consumers, has been sending out erroneous notification letters to a “small percentage” of those affected, the company confirmed Monday. Hackers breached…
TX: Personal info still being discarded and dumped improperly
Courtney Schoenemann reports that a security analyst who goes dumpster diving in his spare time, came across a filing cabinet of account receivables from an Austin home remodeling company that had been dumped by an as-yet unnamed company: “Their routing numbers, bank account numbers, some had their driver’s license numbers on their checks. Everything you…