George Avalos reports: State regulators on Thursday approved a $33 million settlement with Comcast in connection with an unauthorized disclosure of unlisted names, phone numbers and addresses of 75,000 of the telecommunications giant’s customers. The names, phone numbers and addresses of the unlisted and non-published customers became available on Comcast’s online director (sic), in one…
Category: Business Sector
Second Russian pleads guilty in record US data breach
Karl Thomas reports: A second Russian man has pleaded guilty in an American court for his role in what is thought to be the biggest data breach in the history of the US. A day after 34-year-old Vladimir Drinkman pleaded guilty in New Jersey for helping orchestrate the theft of 160 million credit card details,…
Kardashian Website Security Issue Exposes Names, Emails Of Over Half A Million Subscribers, Payment Info Safe
Sarah Perez reports: Alongside the launch of the Kardashian and Jenner mobile apps, which are now dominating the App Store after seeing hundreds of thousands of downloads apiece in their first days on the market, the celeb sisters also released new websites designed to help them better connect with their fans while offering a more personal look…
BitPay Sues Insurer After Losing $1.8 Million in Phishing Attack
Stan Higgins reports: BitPay has filed suit against a Massachusetts insurance company after losing $1.8m during a phishing attack last December. According to documents obtained by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the bitcoin payment processor was defrauded in mid-December by an unknown individual posing as BTC Media CEO David Bailey, whose computer was infiltrated prior to the attack….
CORRECTIONS
A post describing a massive data leak/exposure incorrectly identified CSAC as one of the entities whose data were exposed. CSAC informs this site that it was CSAC-EIA, a separate organization. DataBreaches.net apologizes to CSAC for the error and has corrected the post. In that same story, York Insurance Group was also incorrectly listed as an affected…
Russian Hacker Drinkman Pleads Guilty in Largest Data Breach
David Voreacos has an update to the case against Vladimir Drinkman: A Russian hacker pleaded guilty in the biggest data-breach case in U.S. history, admitting he helped steal 160 million credit-card numbers. Vladimir Drinkman, 34, said Tuesday in federal court in Camden, New Jersey, that he conspired with four other men to pillage credit card numbers…