Ethan Baron reports: Data thieves used a massive “botnet” against professional networking site LinkedIn and stole member’s personal information, a new lawsuit reveals. The Mountain View firm filed the federal suit this week in an attempt to uncover the perpetrators. “LinkedIn members populate their profiles with a wide range of information concerning their professional lives, including summaries (narratives…
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Dota2 forums hacked
As seen on LeakedSource.com: Dota2 official forums was hacked on July 10th, 2016 (http://dev.dota2.com). This data set contains 1,923,972 records. Each record contains an email address, ip address, username, user identifier, and one password. Oh, look… the forum runs on vBulletin. Gee, where have we seen something like this before, I wonder….
In: IT firm ex-employee booked for data theft
TNN reports: The former employee of an IT firm has been booked for allegedly stealing data from that company and selling it to industry competitors. He was sacked by the firm for misuse of data, and was later found to be using the stolen data for personal benefits. As per the complaint lodged by Deepak…
Chinese Hackers Sold Delta Airline Vulnerabilities on Black Market
Joshua Philipp reports: Computer systems of Delta Airlines have suffered a “glitch” that is causing flight delays on the airline globally. While the cause of the delays is still unclear, a group of cyber criminals was recently selling vulnerabilities to major airlines on the black market. On Jan. 3, cybercriminals on a darknet black market…
KY: HR Employee Investigated In Identity Theft Allegations
Lex18 reports: A Mount Sterling company is under investigation amid allegations of identity theft by an employee in the company’s human resources department. The Montgomery County Sheriff Department and the management of Cooper Standard are investigating allegations of identity theft by human resources employee. Read more on Lex18.
Data Breach At Oracle’s MICROS Point-of-Sale Division
Brian Krebs reports: A Russian organized cybercrime group known for hacking into banks and retailers appears to have breached hundreds of computer systems at software giant Oracle Corp., KrebsOnSecurity has learned. More alarmingly, the attackers have compromised a customer support portal for companies using Oracle’s MICROS point-of-sale credit card payment systems. Asked this weekend for comment on rumors of a large…