Catalin Cimpanu reports: It appears that details of over seven million Minecraft gamers were being sold on the Dark Web, Troy Hunt security researcher has revealed today on Twitter. The data belonged to users of the Lifeboat Minecraft community and included user details such as usernames, email addresses, and MD5-hashed passwords. Read more on Softpedia.
Category: Business Sector
dōTERRA letter informs customers of possible data breach
McKenzie Romero reports: A letter sent to customers and distributors from doTERRA, the Utah-based essential oil company, is warning that an apparent data breach last month may have compromised their personal information. A letter dated April 18 explains that a breach of doTERRA’s third-party data hosting and software service provider may have accessed the names,…
Former PwC employees on trial in Lux Leaks breach and scandal
There’s a new development in an insider breach that created shock waves internationally As I had noted back in 2014, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee charged with copying and leaking files to the media (the “Lux Leaks” case) had suggested that he wasn’t the only employee involved. Now Fraser Simpson reports that today, two former PwC employees…
Lawsuit claims workers comp insurers hacked into injured workers’ files
Donna Mahoney reports: A California worker claims in a federal lawsuit that three of the largest workers compensation insurance companies in California illegally hacked over 32,000 confidential workers comp files. A lawsuit, which seeks class action status, was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Homestate, San…
Hundreds of Spotify credentials appear online – users report accounts hacked, emails changed
Sarah Perez reports: A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible security breach. After reaching out to a random sampling of the victims via email, we’ve confirmed that these users’ Spotify…
Grand Sierra Resort guest payment cards breached in 2014 and again in 2015
The Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, has become the latest hospitality entity to disclose a data breach involving customers’ credit card information. In this case, there appear to be two time frames during which cards used at their food and retail locations may have been compromised: for a one-month period in 2014 and again…