Issued by VTECH today: VTech Holdings Limited noted that an unauthorized party accessed VTech customer data housed on our Learning Lodge app store database on 14 November 2015. Learning Lodge allows our customers to download apps, learning games, e-books and other educational content to their VTech products. Upon discovering the unauthorized access on 24 November…
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Private Internet Access notifies customers of IP Address Leak Vulnerability
If you use Private Internet Access, you should have a notification in your inbox. Here’s the text of the email they sent out today: Dear Valued Customer, On November 17, we were privately notified of an IP address leak vulnerability affecting the port forwarding feature of our service. Essentially, anyone connecting to a forwarded port on…
UK: Bluebox Broadband: 3,000 customers’ details published online
Angelique Lu reports: Details of more than 3,000 customers or potential customers of Bluebox Broadband have been published online. It is currently unknown who is responsible for the leak of names, email addresses and phone numbers. Read more on BBC.
NY: Blauvelt car salesman stole customer IDs: cops
Mike Donofrio reports that a car salesman employed at Rockland Nissan in Blauvelt has been arrested and charged with using customers’ information to open credit cards. Read more on LoHud.
Sony Slapped With Negligence Suit By Ex-VP On Hacking Anniversary
It ain’t over ’til it’s over. Dominic Patten reports: A year to the day that Sony was ripped open by a massive hacking, the fallout continues from the public disclosure of private and corporate information. While one set of lawsuits move towards a multi-million settlement, today the studio’s former VP, Global Commercial Planning and Innovation Amy Heller hit…
VTECH Hack Exposes Data on More Than 200,000 Kids and Almost 5M parents (update2)
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…