Laura Shin reports: Just after midnight on August 11, self-professed night owl Jered Kenna was working at home in Medellin, Colombia, when he was notified the passwords had been reset on two of his email addresses. He tried to set up new passwords himself by prompting the email service to send him text messages containing…
Category: Business Sector
Data breach enables car thieves in Jersualem
Roee Yanovsky reports: Criminals from east Jerusalem were able to use information from a Hyundai and Kia data leak to steal dozens of brand new luxury cars and smuggle them into the West Bank. Israel Police recently arrested three east Jerusalem residents who were able to access data from the two companies, and using that…
Private Numbers Exposed – FLOW Customers’ Personal Information Inadvertently Released In Yellow Pages
Jovan Johnson reports: The full scale has not been revealed, but telecommunications company FLOW is scrambling to explain to perhaps hundreds of customers why their telephone numbers and other data that have been private, in some cases for almost a quarter of a century, have been released in the 2017 Yellow Pages telephone directory. Among…
CT: 3 arrested in fraud scheme that allegedly used veterans’ information
Fox61 reports: STAFFORD SPRINGS — Exactly nine months after police began investigating the possibility that a local company was committing fraud and larceny, three people have been arrested. […] It was determined that the employees of Shark Cycle were stealing the personal information — names, birthday and social security numbers — of customers who were veterans. They…
In: Ex-staffers of private firm booked for data theft
TNN reports: A city-based customer care firm has alleged that two of its former employees stole sensitive information while employed by them, and used it to start a rival customer care firm in Dehradun. In a complaint filed at Udyog Vihar police station on Saturday, Manoj Pandey, senior vice-president of Quatrro Global Services, said the accused, Pramod Mamgain and Vikas…
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is sending emails to users about a Lynda.com data breach
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…