While the folks at Denuvo are leaders in the field of video game protection, the same cannot be said about their website. In an embarrassing blunder, the company has left some directories and files open to the public and right now members of the cracking community are downloading and scrutinizing the contents. Read more on…
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Data from 2014 hack of children’s online game Bin Weevils leaked online; hacker claims 20m records
We’ve seen it before – in fact, we seem to be seeing it a lot recently – data from an old hack first being publicly leaked. This time it’s Bin Weevils, a British online children’s game, owned by 55 Pixels. In September 2014, Bin Weevils posted a note on their site that they had discovered a “vulnerability”…
An Anonymous group just took down a fifth of the dark web
Russell Brandom reported this yesterday (Friday): Visitors to more than 10,000 Tor-based websites were met with an alarming announcement this morning: “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.” A group affiliating itself with Anonymous had compromised servers at Freedom Hosting II, a popular service for hosting websites accessible only through Tor. Roughly six hours…
InterContinental reports payment card breach at 12 U.S. hotels
Reuters reports that Intercontinental Hotels has now confirmed a breach that was first reported by Brian Krebs in December: InterContinental Hotels Group Plc said on Friday that a malware in the servers at 12 of its hotels in the United States tracked payment card data if the card was used at the hotels’ restaurants and…
PIP Printing and Marketing Services exposed 400GB of data, including personal information
MacKeeper Security Research Center reports that PIP Printing and Marketing Services, a franchise of Franchise Services in California, was leaking data: The majority of 400+ GB server is dedicated to design files and images relating to the printing business. The most sensitive information is contained within the “Outlook archives” and “Scans” folders. These contain around…
Ca: Victim of arson spree questions ICBC’s handling of privacy breach
There’s a follow-up to a breach that I had described as one of the worst insider breaches at its time – because it put lives at serious risk and some victims were firebombed or shot at. Mi-Jung Lee and Kendra Mangione recently interviewed one of the victims, who continues to have concerns about the handling…