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.
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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…
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…