Brian Krebs reports: The recent breaches involving the leak of personal data on millions of customers at online hookup site Adult Friend Finder and mobile spyware maker mSpy give extortionists and blackmailers plenty of ammunition with which to ply their trade. And there is some evidence that ne’er-do-wells are actively trading this data and planning to abuse it for…
Category: Business Sector
ZA: MTN shuts down e-billing portal
Duncan McLeod reports: MTN South Africa has shut down its e-billing portal until security concerns have been addressed, the mobile operator said on Friday. “This has been implemented with immediate effect and customers will receive their bills via e-mail as an interim measure,” a spokesman said. The decision to shut down the e-billing website follows…
2.8 million victims squared up by malicious Minecraft apps
This seems to be Minecraft’s day to get bad press on this blog. First a forum hack gets disclosed and now Darren Pauli reports that malicious apps masquerading as Minecraft apps are causing problems for users: ESET researcher Lukas Stefanko says a whopping 2.8 million users have downloaded malicious Minecraft Android applications. Stefanko found 30…
Minecraft Pocket Edition forum hacked, dumped
The minecraftpeforum.net domain has recently expired, but before it expired, it seems it was hacked. @rmsg0d, a member of TeaMp0isoN, dropped their forum’s database containing 16,125 records with userids, usernames, password, salt, loginkey, e-mail addresses, and numerous other fields relating to forum participation. In some cases, users seems to have actually provided their birthdates. Because the…
Breach compromises more than 1,000 debit cards in Metro Vancouver
CTV reports: Accounts of more than 1,000 Vancity customers have been compromised after their debit card numbers were stolen while making purchases in Metro Vancouver. “We found out this morning from Central One, our card provider, that two Vancouver-area retailers have had their card machines compromised as a result of a skimming operation,” Vancity spokesperson…
Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Company reports lost flash drive
I really miss the days when NYS posted all the breach notifications it received online, but they still occasionally post breach alerts. This week, the NYS Department of Financial Services posted an alert concerning Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Company. In looking into it, I discovered that LocalSYR.com had reported the breach on April 21st: Columbian Mutual…