Eugene Kapersky writes: One of the biggest Russian mobile operators Megafon with 57+ million user base leaked the users’ SMS history. Thousands of messages are now available online that caused a major nation-wide scandal. There is another company that may have been involved in the issue – Yandex, the biggest national search engine that could have indexed either some classified storage or SMS…
Category: Breach Incidents
JLAudio responds to hack; notifies consumers to change their passwords
I’ve heard back from JLAudio, who confirms that they were hacked. A spokesperson for the firm indicates that the hacked database is maintained by a third party vendor whom they declined to name. The site was used by customers to upload pictures of their cars showing their JLAudio systems. The picture gallery has been removed…
Settlement of yet another lawsuit against WellPoint /Anthem Blue Cross gets preliminary approval
If you feel like you need a scorecard to keep track of lawsuits against WellPoint or settlements involving WellPoint, it’s understandable. WellPoint recently settled a lawsuit by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office over delayed notification following a breach that occurred in 2009 and continued until after a customer notified them twice in 2010. Then they settled…
Hacker: JLAudio database hacked; users’ information posted online
The hacker known as Abhaxas (@Abhaxas on Twitter) has uploaded a database with what appears to be 4,827 JLAudio’s users’ first and last names, street addresses with city and zipcode, ages, userIDs, e-mail addresses, and plain text passwords. In a preface to the data dump, Abhaxas writes: I warned you guys multiple times, but it…
Toshiba confirms they were hacked; customers notified
Last week I noted that Toshiba appeared to have been hacked. Now they’ve confirmed it. John Oates reports: Toshiba says that unidentified hackers have stolen customer records belonging to 7,500 of its customers. Credit cards details were not compromised, but emails, addresses, passwords and phone numbers all went missing. Read more on The Register. A press release…
Couple of minor leaks, uscourts.gov and atomiccupcake.com
Just a couple of minor leaks, seems to be a busy day. @p0keu has leak a small db from https://www.tned.uscourts.gov/. https://pastebin.com/9DMEumcL Also Atomic Cupcake has been hacked and had its DB leaked. this is just a random leak from pastebin, https://pastebin.com/hpGh07Vy