Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The personal information of almost 5 million parents and more than 200,000 kids was exposed earlier this month after a hacker broke into the servers of a Chinese company that sells kids toys and gadgets, Motherboard has learned. The hacked data includes names, email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents…
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Hungryhouse resets thousands of customers’ passwords
Kat Hall reports: Online takeaway service Hungryhouse has reset the passwords of thousands of its customers following an apparent data breach at a third party hosting company. Scott Fletcher, chief executive of Hungryhouse, said: “We had no affiliation with the web hosting company that was hit by a data breach. But when our head of…
Australian teenager accused of being part of group suspected of US Army hack able to flee ‘easily’
Lauren Day reports: An Australian teenage hacker has raised serious questions about border security after he fled the country, despite having been ordered to surrender his passport. Dylan Wheeler, from Perth, was 17 when he was charged with being part of a group that hacked the computers of Microsoft and the US Army. The hackers…
Breach at IT Automation Firm LANDESK
Brian Krebs reports that LANDESK may have been hacked as early as June, 2014, and the impact may extend beyond employee data being stolen: LANDESK, a company that sells software to help organizations securely and remotely manage their fleets of desktop computers, servers and mobile devices, alerted employees last week that a data breach may…
Plusnet ignores GCHQ, spits out plaintext passwords to customers
Alexander J. Martin reports: Contrary to password storage security standards, BT-owned Plusnet is still delivering plaintext strings back to forgetful users, and seems to have no plans to tidy itself up any time soon – despite years of warnings from security experts and the advice of GCHQ. Plusnet has stated that it “goes to great…
UK: ‘Get out more, play rugby’ Judge advises teen who DDoSed online gambling site
Bradley Jolly reports: Judge Michael Stokes QC encouraged Max Whitehouse, 19, to take up the sport after a court heard he was living a “virtual life”. He said the teen was one of many youths who spent far too much time in front of a computer screen and added: “Well, you need to get out…