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Ca: VerticalScope confirms user information stolen from six hacked websites

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Dissent

The Canadian Press reports: Toronto-based VerticalScope Inc. says six of the community websites it administers were hacked last month in the latest of a recent series of data breaches affecting Canadian online user information. […] It says the data did not include credit card or banking information but did include usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords,…

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UK: Cash Converters hacked; customer data held for ransom

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Dissent

Tim Collins reports: Hackers who attacked the now defunct website of second hand goods store Cash Converters may have access to the account details of thousands of customers. Usernames, passwords, delivery addresses and potentially partial credit card numbers are among the data believed to have been stolen. The culprits are said to be holding the…

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Huddle’s ‘highly secure’ work tool exposed KPMG and BBC files

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Dissent

Chris Foxx reports: The BBC has discovered a security flaw in the office collaboration tool Huddle that led to private documents being exposed to unauthorised parties. A BBC journalist was inadvertently signed in to a KPMG account, with full access to private financial documents. Huddle is an online tool that lets work colleagues share content…

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Retailer Forever 21 discloses payment card breach

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Dissent

So far, all I’ve seen is their press release, so it will have to do until we get more details from other sources, but I do wonder what kind of “third party” alerted them to this – was it a third party vendor who had some responsibility for data security or a customer who experienced…

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Fasten data leak: Nearly 1 million users’ sensitive data mistakenly exposed by US ride-hailing firm

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Dissent

India Ashok reports: Over one million users’ personal and financial data was inadvertently publicly exposed by US-based ride hailing firm Fasten. The leaked data includes names, emails, phone numbers, credit card data, links to photos, device IMEI numbers, GPS data and users’ taxi routes. The firm also exposed sensitive information of its own drivers, including…

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Equifax spends $87.5 million on data breach, more expenses on deck

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Dissent

Larry Dignan reports: Equifax spent $87.5 million in the third quarter on its recent data breach. The disclosure, which came amid an earnings report that showed revenue growth of 4 percent to $834.8 million and net income of $96.3 million. In other words, the data breach affecting 145 million Equifax customers dented the cash cow,…

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