Brian Krebs reports: When news broke last month that the credit card breach at fast food chain Wendy’s impacted fewer than 300 out of the company’s 5,800 locations, the response from many readers was, “Where’s the Breach?” Today, Wendy’s said the number of stores impacted by the breach is “significantly higher” and that the intrusion may not yet be contained. Read more…
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LeakedSource uploads data set with 32,888,300 Twitter credentials
From LeakedSource: Twitter credentials are being traded in the tens of millions on the dark web. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This data set was provided to us by a user who goes by the alias “[email protected]”, and has given us permission…
Former Agilent Technologies employee pleads guilty to damaging ex-employer’s computers
Kenneth Kezeor pleaded guilty Tuesday to intentionally damaging a protected computer by attacking a corporate computer application of his former employer. The plea was announced by United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. Kezeor, 47, of Felton, Calif., acknowledged he was hired by a Silicon Valley company…
Second Circuit Holds Insurers Have Duty to Defend Data Trap Lawsuit
Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP write: In its recent decision in Nat’l Fire Ins. Co. v. E. Mishan & Sons, Inc., 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 10151 (2d Cir. June 1, 2016), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, applying New York law, had occasion to consider the application of an exclusion…
uTorrent forums hacked, change your passwords
Ernesto writes: The uTorrent community forums have been hacked, exposing the private details of hundreds of thousands of users. The hackers were able to get their hands on the user database, and a warning issued by the software maker says that passwords should be considered compromised. With well over 150 million active users a month…
Info on international students and hosting families exposed in misconfigured database
It may be hard to resist naming a database after a favorite movie, but a database named “Coruscant” caught a researcher’s eye when the researcher was searching Shodan.io for exposed databases. And the rest, as they say, well… read on. The Cambridge Institute of International Education (CIIE) is a Boston-based educational consulting firm whose mission is to boost the…