Neowin reports: LinkedIn has begun informing Lynda.com users of a data breach, emailing customers to say that “an unauthorized third party breached a database that included some of your Lynda.com learning data, such as contact information and courses viewed.” The company says that there is no evidence to support the thought that passwords were included…
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Bleacher Reports Suffers Data Breach as “Unauthorized Party” Accesses User Data
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Sports news portal Bleacher Report announced today a security breach that affected readers that signed up for accounts on the site. At the time of writing the number of affected users isn’t known, and a request for comment from Bleeping Computer was not returned at the time of publishing. According to an…
Domino’s Pizza urges customers to change their passwords
So Domino’s says it hasn’t been hacked, but it wants its customers to use better security hygiene because so many other companies have been hacked. Michael Moore reports: The pizza delivery chain emailed customers today urging them to change the password linked to their My Domino’s account as soon as possible. Although Domino’s says that…
Ameriprise leak exposes millions of dollars worth of accounts
Zack Whittaker reports on another exposed database uncovered by Chris Vickery of the MacKeeper Security Research team: An advisor working for financial planning giant Ameriprise has inadvertently exposed hundreds of investment portfolios, worth tens of millions of dollars. The data was found on an internet-connected backup drive at the advisor’s home, which was set to…
Legion hacker claims mail leak of 74,000 chartered accountants
TNN reports: He is an 18-year-old somewhere in India. Or so, he says. And he is part of Legion, the hacker group that has got India’s attention after several high-profile email and Twitter hacks, and some extensive data dumps. On Wednesday evening, he shared with TOI a list of what he claims are email addresses…
Stolen Yahoo Data Includes Government Employee Information
Jordan Robertson reports yet another worrying aspect to the newly disclosed Yahoo! breach affecting 1 billion users: government employee accounts were involved, and at least one buyer of the database specifically asked about government officials as to whether their data was in the database. Some snippets from his reporting: More than 150,000 U.S. government and military…