Alexander J. Martin reports: Aviva-owned online-only insurance business Quotemehappy.com has informed customers that there has been a data breach at its website. Quotemehappy announced that it had “recently” lost a “small number” of customers’ details, comprising “vehicle registration, email address, mobile number, landline number and address.” An email sent around to customers today, which was…
Category: Business Sector
Anonymous Leaks Details for 64,000 Tanzania Telecommunications Company Employees (UPDATE2)
Update1: TTCL is denying that they’ve had any breach. Update 2: Softpedia stands by its report that there was a breach, but has revised its estimate of the numbers. As one consequence, the headline for this post has been revised to delete the mention of 64,000. Original post: Catalin Cimpanu reports: Barely a day has passed since…
Jacksonville law firm victim of ransomware
Max Marbut reports: You might think the data stored on your computer at home or work is relatively safe from theft or even tampering. You would be wrong. No one knows that better than attorney Thomas Brown of The Brown Firm. […] The culprits left behind a digital message: Give them $2,500 and they would…
Misconfigured MongoDB installation left Microsoft careers site vulnerable to attack
Chris Vickery writes: An exposed database was serving potentially arbitrary HTML through the mobile version of Microsoft’s careers page (m.careersatmicrosoft.com). Punchkick Interactive is a mobile web development company. Microsoft relies on Punchkick to handle the database that powers m.careersatmicrosoft.com. The bad news is that, for at least the past few weeks, this backend database has…
NOT SO SECURUS: PART 2 Lawyers Speak Out About Massive Hack of Prisoners’ Phone Records
The Intercept follows up on its earlier report in which a hack of Securus revealed that 70 million phone calls had been recorded – many involving what should be privileged communications between attorneys and their clients. Jordan Smith and Micah Lee report: The Intercept’s analysis, to the contrary, estimated that the hacked data included at least…
Ex-employee of Yahoo’s Forex broker YJFX stole clients’ data
Maria Nikolova of LeapRate reports that retail Forex broker YJFX, a subsidiary of Yahoo Japan Corporation, recently reported that a former employee stole more than 180,000 pieces of information about YJFX clients. The information ranged from transactions details to names of the clients and their bank account data. The information taken by the former employee had reportedly been stored…