Cellular News reports: T Mobile’s Czech subsidiary came close to suffering a massive data breach following actions by an employee of the company. Local media reported that an employee attempted to sell the details of 1.5 million customers to fraudsters, but that the attempt was detected before the customer account details were handed over. “Unfortunately,…
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51 Million iMesh Passwords Dumped Online
Paul Wagenseil reports: If you’re suffering from data-breach fatigue, tough luck. LeakedSource, the shadowy website that broke the recent news of the LinkedIn and MySpace breaches, today (June 13) announced that 51 million account credentials for iMesh, a defunct file-sharing service, were being sold online. Read more on Tom’s Guide. In its blog post, LeakedSource explains: iMesh.com (now defunct)…
Let’s Encrypt Accidentally Spills 7,600 User Emails
Chris Brook writes: Certificate authority Let’s Encrypt accidentally disclosed the email addresses of several thousand of its users this weekend. Josh Aas, Executive Director for the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), the nonprofit group that helped launch the CA, apologized for the error on Saturday. In what Let’s Encrypt dubbed a preliminary report posted shortly after…
ZA: Anonymous hackers are cowards: SABC
MyBroadband reports: Public broadcaster the SABC has confirmed that its websites were hacked on Sunday. SABC websites ranging from those of its radio station 5FM to its main news portal experienced downtime for hours on Sunday. A Twitter account belonging to a hacktivist group dubbed Anonymous Africa claimed responsibility for the downtime of the SABC…
Dell Official Website Subdomains Hacked By Kurdish Hackers
TapScape reports: A Kurdish hacker codenamed “MuhmadEmad” from the hacktivist group “KurdLinux_Team” have managed to gain unauthorized access to Dell’s official website subdomains and leaving them defaced. At the time of publishing this news article, the website remained hacked. Read more on TapScape.
Insurance agents in Virginia may have had personal data stolen
Kimberley Pierceall reports: If you sold insurance in Virginia but your license lapsed or expired between 1979 and 2004, a state agency suspects your personal information may have been stolen. Virginia’s State Corporation Commission says a former contractor for the agency may have copied insurance agent files that included names, Social Security numbers or driver’s…