Catalin Cimpanu reports: Netherlands-based Fox-IT, one of the world’s leading IT security providers, disclosed today a security breach during which an unknown attacker carried out a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack and spied on a small number of Fox-IT customers. The incident took place on September 19 and lasted for 10 hours and 24 minutes. According to…
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South Korea Imposes ~$55,000 Fines On a Crypto Operator for Security Failures
There’s a follow-up to the Bithumb hack, noted previously on this site. Profit Confidential reports: An operator of Bithumb, BTC Korea.com, was reportedly fined for leaking the data of its users. They allegedly stored the data without encrypting it, and according to reports, their anti-virus software was not updated as well. Due to this loophole,…
eBay Privacy Breach Exposes Customer Names on Google (Updated)
Ina Steiner reports: In what appears to be a major breach of customer privacy, eBay is exposing customers’ real first and last names, as well as the items they’ve purchased, publicly on Google. While the idea that your real name is exposed in a product review you left for a benign product like clothing or…
Jeffree Star’s Private Info Just Got Hacked And Leaked Online
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and again….. celebrities do not waive all their rights to privacy by being celebrities. And as I’ve also often said: even “small” breaches – breaches involving one person or a few – matter. Seen in my news searches today: Jeffree Star was the victim of a…
Basic training in avoiding phishing is no longer sufficient
Oof. I read something like this notification below from Boise Cascade Company in Utah, and I wonder if the employees had been regularly trained in avoiding phishing attacks, or if it was just the case that the phishing was done so damned well that the employees fell for it despite their training. In this case,…
Netshoes customer data possibly hacked; 500k customers’ order info dumped?
It’s been one of those weeks when I struggle to keep up with all of the tips and leads I’m sent. One of the leads, received yesterday morning, pointed me to a post on Pastebin with what purported to be a “Link to Download Order History – Netshoes.com – ˜500k records.” The link did, in fact,…