I have no idea if their coffee is any good, but Bulletproof Coffee’s infosecurity may seem like it’s…. wait… what’s the opposite of “bulletproof?” Eduard Kovacs of Security Week recaps a series of payment card breach notifications the Washington-based coffee firm has had to issue in the past year as it discovered that previous estimates…
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U.S. Charges Three Chinese Hackers Who Work at Internet Security Firm for Hacking Three Corporations for Commercial Advantage
An indictment was unsealed yesterday against Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei, all of whom are Chinese nationals and residents of China, for computer hacking, theft of trade secrets, conspiracy and identity theft directed at U.S. and foreign employees and computers of three corporate victims in the financial, engineering and technology industries between 2011…
Confidential files containing graphic descriptions of alleged rapes and victims’ details were found in a bin
Beth Abbit reports: Rape complainants’ confidential details were exposed by a cache of lawyers’ files dumped in a bin and found by a passer-by. Graphic accounts of alleged attacks – and the names of alleged victims and the accused – were among a stash of papers left in a dumpster by a canal in Ancoats….
UK: Oxford and Cambridge Club hit by data breach after backup drive with members’ info stolen
Incredibly, they keep reporting this as “online data theft.” The theft of data that you intend to post online is not online data theft when it was your backup drive that was stolen from your brick and mortar headquarters. PTI reports: The Oxford and Cambridge Club, one of the United Kingdom’s most elite gentlemen’s clubs…
Canadian charged in Yahoo hacking case to plead guilty in U.S.
Nate Raymond reports: A Canadian accused by the United States of helping Russian intelligence agents break into email accounts as part of a massive 2014 breach of Yahoo accounts is expected to plead guilty next week, according to court records. Karim Baratov, who earlier this year waived his right to fight a U.S. request for…
Imgur Notice of Data Breach
Admirably fast response to notification by Imgur: Dear Imgurians, On November 23, Imgur was notified of a potential security breach that occurred in 2014 that affected the email addresses and passwords of 1.7 million user accounts. While we are still actively investigating the intrusion, we wanted to inform you as quickly as possible as to…