After the proposed class action lawsuit against Neiman Marcus (Remijas v. Neiman Marcus) was tossed in September for lack of standing (opinion and order), the plaintiffs appealed. The Seventh Circuit heard oral argument on the standing issue on January 23. You can listen to the audio (about 32 minutes) here. The court will issue its ruling at…
Category: Business Sector
LinkedIn’s Data Breach Settlement Moves Forward
Wendy Davis reports: A federal judge has tentatively approved LinkedIn’s $1.25 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2012 data breach. “The settlement agreement falls within the range of possible approval as fair, reasonable, adequate, and in the best interests of the class,” U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila in the Northern District…
And then I stumbled across these hacks by Zyklon
Seen on Pastebin, dated January 15: Hacked By Zyklon #Wonkasec WonkaSec Temp Homepage: http://trippletoaster.freeiz.com/Index%285%29.html Twitter: http://twitter.com/zyclonb4u Website Hacked: http://soviethistory.macalester.edu Very small portion of the accounts, the other 90,000+ will be posted here: http://trippletoaster.freeiz.com/DbDump.php The accounts with .edu emails are most likely professors, if you are in college…
Ex-RadioShack worker accused of stealing nude phone photos
Henry Lee reports: A former RadioShack employee in Corte Madera appeared in court Monday on charges that he stole revealing cell phone photos from a woman who had brought her phone in to fix a cracked screen. Jose Robert Miranda, 24, of Richmond did not enter a plea to a felony charge of theft and…
League of Legends exploit opens back door to user accounts
Shaun Prescott reports: A League of Legends exploit allowing browser access to the game’s store as a means to hacking other player accounts, is being addressed by Riot. According to witness reports on Reddit, the exploit allows users to access the League of Legends store from a web browser rather than the game client. With access to a user’s Summoner ID and…
HipChat Security Notice and Password Reset
Craig Davies posted this on HipChat‘s blog two days ago: Atlassian’s security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the HipChat service that resulted in unauthorized access to names, usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords for a very small percentage (<2%) of our users. We have no evidence that any payment information was accessed. While HipChat passwords…