Catalin Cimpanu reports: Administrators of the Ethereum Project have announced today a data breach that affected over 16,500 users of the platform’s community forums. Ethereum is the name of the platform on which users can trade the Ether cryptocurrency, while the Ethereum Project is the governing body that manages the platform. The Ethereum forum is where…
Category: Breach Incidents
Players data found on public computer, England team hit by security breach in Chennai
Chennai: While England are facing an uphill task to save the fifth and final Test against India in Chennai on Tuesday, the team was hit by a security breach where all the details about the police protection and players’ stay were let out in the open. The data was found on a public computer in a…
Hacker claims to have 305,000 PayAsUGym customers’ data up for sale (Updated)
PayAsUGym is a brilliant concept, enabling customers to find and use their nearest gym no matter where their work or day takes them. The network currently has 2,500 fitness centers in the U.K. and customers who purchase monthly passes have unlimited access to their chosen gym, but also access to all gyms of same monthly price or less,…
IL: Security breach could affect Black Hawk College employees
Anthony Watt reports: Information about Black Hawk College employees and their dependents could have been compromised in a hack of a former insurance provider’s server. Summit Reinsurance Services Inc. has notified the college that the names, Social Security numbers, health insurance information and medical records of 1,000 current and former employees could have been accessed…
Insider breaches dominate in Protenus’s November Breach Barometer
As in previous months, Protenus has summarized what kind of month November was for breaches involving health data. And as the November issue of Breach Barometer makes clear, insider/employee incidents outnumbered external attacks in a month where we first learned of 57 incidents – the largest number of monthly reports this year. One of the main explanations for…
Argentinian government site hacked after they didn’t respond to warnings
Another day, another entity that gets hacked and their data dumped because they ignored warnings, it seems. But for reasons that are unclear to me, Softpedia seems to be making a low-level breach sound like something much more than it appears to be. Bogdan Popa reports: The official website of the Argentinian Ministry of Industry…