Waqas writes: In June 2016, the official website of Evony gaming company suffered a massive data breach in which 33,407,472 of its registered user accounts were stolen. Things couldn’t go worse when in August 2016, the gaming site suffered another data breach on its forum in which 938,000 of its registered accounts were stolen. Read more on HackRead.
Category: Business Sector
AU: Event Organizer Suffers Data Breach After Hacker Steals Mailing Lists
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Pont3, an Australian event organizer, revealed yesterday that an unauthorized party had gained access to its mailing list account and downloaded data about individuals that subscribed to various events organized by the company in the past. The intrusion took place last Thursday, on October 6, and Pont3 said the attacker gained access…
Thai regulator clears AIS in data leak
Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) cleared the country’s largest mobile operator AIS in a data privacy leak after determining it wasn’t involved in the release of subscriber call and location records. NBTC secretary-general Takorn Tantaisith said the panel found that an AIS employee was responsible for taking the customer data, the Bangkok Post said. Read…
Almost 6,000 online shops hit by hackers
BBC reports: Almost 6,000 web shops are unknowingly harbouring malicious code that is stealing the credit card details of customers, suggests research. The code has been injected into the sites by cyberthieves, said Dutch developer Willem De Groot. He found the 5,925 compromised sites by scanning for the specific signature of the data-stealing code in website…
Vermont Attorney General Enters Unique Data Security Settlement With Software Developer
October 12, 2016 In a settlement announced today, software company Entrinsik agreed to provide better warnings after a Vermont college experienced a security breach that potentially exposed 14,000 social security numbers due to the ordinary use of its reporting tool. Because the Attorney General believes that the software practice involved is widespread and many companies may not…
Amazon Denies Data Breach Rumors but Resets User Passwords Just in Case
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The company says that nobody breached its servers, but that it took this step after its security staff discovered a set of customer details posted online as part of another breach at another company. Amazon says those details matched the details of Amazon accounts, and since it had no way of knowing…