Brian Krebs reports: Hyatt Hotels Corporation said today it recently discovered malicious software designed to steal credit card data on computers that operate the payment processing systems for Hyatt-managed locations. Hyatt’s notice to customers has very few details about the investigation, such as how long the breach lasted or how many consumers may have had their card data…
Category: Business Sector
Livestream alerts customers it may have been hacked
Roberto Baldwin reports: Nothing says yuletide cheer like a cup of egg nog, a roaring fire and reseting the password on a video streaming service. Livestream is alerting customers that an “unauthorized person may have accessed our customer account database.” If you have an account with the service, now is a good time to head over there…
Databases of SumoTorrent, qTorrent and Deluge Available for Sale on the Black Market
Catalin Cimpanu writes: A hacker known as Databoss has stolen the databases of BitTorrent clients qTorrent and Deluge, and is offering access to all the data via his website. Deluge and qTorrent are desktop clients for the BitTorrent protocol, just like uTorrent and Vuze. According to a post on the Reality Forum, a hacker that goes…
[Hello Kitty Update] Security Advisory: Corrected a vulnerability involving personal information of SanrioTown.com members
As noted in an update to my first post, Salted Hash learned that this incident potentially impacted over 186,000 children under the age of 18. Here is Sanrio’s statement from their SanrioTown web site: Sanrio Digital notifies that personal information belonging to members of the consumer website SanrioTown.com was publicly accessible owing to a security vulnerability….
Misconfigured database may have exposed 1.5 million individuals’ PHI: researcher (UPDATE2)
Alliance Health is a technology company that owns and operates a group of condition-specific social communities with over 1.5 million registered members. Their 29 communities include conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, Crohn’s, asthma, allergies, and HIV, but also includes mental health conditions such as ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and anxiety disorders. To join a community, the member is…
Database leak exposes Uncle Maddio’s employees’ and customers’ info – or did it? (UPDATED)
Update: On December 23, DataBreaches.net received a statement from Uncle Maddio’s public relations firm saying this is not their database: “Thank you for contacting Uncle Maddio’s Pizza. After investigating the information you provided from the third party and reviewing our information security standards and systems, we believe you may have us confused with another company. The information…