David Allison reports: The Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) has reached a contingent settlement with MasterCard International Inc. over the home improvement giant’s massive 2014 data breach. The deal was disclosed Nov. 30 in court filings in federal court in Atlanta. Banks have reached out to see if their members are interested in participating in…
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NM: Fired by Roadrunner, former employee allegedly took revenge by hacking them and re-routing customer service calls
Kirsten Swanson reports: A Rio Rancho man was arrested for hacking his old employers and posing as a technician, even after police say they charged him with a crime. Gordon Logan is accused of hacking into the servers at Roadrunner Wireless Internet Service. He worked at the company for 16 years. Police started to investigate…
VTech hack included children’s pictures and chat logs (Update 1)
Lorenzo Franceshi-Bicchierai has a follow-up to his early report on VTECH: Over the weekend, the hacker, who asked to remain anonymous, told me that VTech left other sensitive data exposed on its servers, including kids’ photos and chat logs between children and parents. This data is from the company’s Kid Connect, a service that allows parents using…
Adele tickets: Fans claim personal data has been breached
BBC reports: Fans buying tickets for Adele’s tour have told the BBC they were shown the address and credit card details of customers other than themselves. Advance tickets were made available to members of Adele.com on Tuesday morning. But several fans said they were shown other people’s shopping baskets, including payment details, when they tried…
Data Breach on VTech Learning Lodge (update)
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…
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…