Los Angeles-based Vixlet‘s web site says, “Social networks of tomorrow Today. Bring it On.” So Chris Vickery, the white-hat researcher who uncovered the Systema Software breach, did. And what he found was that fans of Major League Baseball, ATP, and Slipknot had their personal details leaked. “I downloaded over 377,000 user account details, Chris tells DataBreaches.net, including, “names, email addresses,…
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Tunecore Has Been Hacked, Sensitive Data Revealed, All User Passwords Invalidated
Bruce Houghton reports: Tunecore CEO Scott Ackerman sent an email to all users around midnight on Friday night that their accounts had been hacked three weeks earlier on November 17th. “We recently discovered suspicious activity on TuneCore’s servers in November,” he wrote, “and that on November 17th an individual illegally collected information from our servers.” The data stored…
OkHello is NOT OK – they’re leaking user data (UPDATE 2)
OkHello provides a free group video chat service. Its app is available on the App Store and on Google Play. If you’ve ever used it, your details may be in others’ hands right now. According to their Privacy Policy, OkHello collects a lot of personal information about users, including geolocation data and information from Facebook…
Ashley Madison hack steals man’s job, wife — and mind
In the wake of the Ashley Madison hack, we read a few reports that suggested that the revelations may have contributed to a few suicides. There is still fallout happening from that breach and data dump. Dean Balsamini reports: A prominent New Jersey educator lost his job, his wife, his mind and possibly his freedom —…
LA: Opelousas couple pleads guilty to identity theft
Do you really know who’s preparing your taxes? I’ve seen just soooo many cases of tax preparers stealing customers’ identity information for fraud schemes. Here’s another one: An employee of an Opelousas tax preparation business and her boyfriend pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing customers’ identities in order to pocket income tax refunds. Frances Owens, 36,…
LA: Radio station employee stole contest winner info, opened cable accounts: Gretna police
Michelle Hunter reports: Gretna police arrested an employee of a local radio station accused of stealing the personal information of listeners who won prizes and using the data to open cable accounts and credit cards. Bryan Bienemy, 35, of Gretna, was arrested and booked Wednesday with three counts of felony identity theft and 19 counts of misdemeanor…