Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A hacker or hackers has allegedly stolen more than 1.4 million passwords, email addresses, and other data from the databases of popular forums including Web Hosting Talk, and Mac Forums and HotScripts. Someone who goes by the name “uid0” is offering to sell the three databases on the dark web underground market…
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Insurance broker fined $1K for not following MPI privacy rules
Vera-Lynn Kubinec reports: A privacy breach involving customers’ auto insurance files has netted a Winnipeg insurance broker a $1,000 fine. Manitoba Public Insurance determined that last fall broker Basil Galarnyk accessed customer information 42 times without performing any transactions and with “no discernible reason” for accessing the files, a discipline panel has found. As a result, MPI…
Update: More than 1,000 Wendy’s stores were compromised
Remember when Wendy’s updated its breach disclosure in May to report that it was 300 stores impacted? They subsequently revealed that they had found two types of malware and the number of impacted stores could be “considerably higher.” Well, now it’s 1,025 stores. Here’s their statement from today: As we have reported over the past several…
Leader of StubHub Hackers Gets as Long as 12 Years in Prison
Chris Dolmetsch reports: The ringleader of a hacking scheme that targeted EBay Inc.’s online ticket exchange StubHub was sentenced to as long as 12 years behind bars, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said. Vadim Polyakov, 32, was one of six men indicted in July 2014 on charges related to the ring, which stole personal…
Ca: SaskPower employee fired for ‘snooping’ on more than 4,000 employee files
Alexa Huffman reports: Snooping on personal staff data, including SIN numbers, salaries and spouse names, led to a SaskPower employee being fired in January. According to a report released in June by the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ron Kruzeniski, the employee inappropriately accessed 4,382 human resources files from current and former employees at the…
Trillian Blog and Forums Security Incident
Thanks to the reader who sent in a link to this announcement from Cerulean. Without comment (I think readers can guess what it would be) What happened? On July 4th, 2016, a security breach and data disclosure related to a single server that powered the now-retired blog and forums occurred. We became aware of the breach…