Patch reports: An owner of a Menlo Park dry cleaning business is facing up to eight years in state prison after pleading no contest Friday to numerous charges of felony identity theft and fraud, prosecutors said. Edwin Smith, the 64-year-old owner of Menalto Cleaners, accepted a plea deal that dropped many of the 40 felony…
Category: Breach Incidents
Not our data, not our server – Amazon Kindle denies hacker’s claims
Jason Murdock reports: Online giant Amazon has hit back at claims that a hacker was able to steal over 80,000 user records belonging to Kindle users from one of its servers. On 8 July, a hacker using the pseudonym 0x2Taylor posted a link on Twitter to a data dump that appeared to consist of thousands…
Datadog chews on data breach
Charlie Osborne reports: Datadog has admitted to becoming a victim of a data breach and has recommended that users immediately revoke and change their credentials. Datadog provides metrics for cloud providers across services, apps and systems, offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) which can integrate with platforms including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Windows Azure, Google’s cloud platform…
Another healthcare database hacked and put up for sale (UPDATED)
The blackhat using the Twitter handle @tdohack3r (TheDarkOverlord) has put yet another database with patient information up for sale. As with previous hacks, the database contains identity information that could be used for identity theft or fraud. It also contains medical insurance account information and codes related to the type of service. According to the listing…
Twitter login credentials up for sale on dark net
So it appears that 71 million Twitter login credentials (email addresses and passwords, all cleartext) are up for sale on the dark net. No indication where they came from or how fresh they are (I’ve inquired and will update this post if I get any info). Might this be a good time to change…
Insurance broker fined $1K for not following MPI privacy rules
Vera-Lynn Kubinec reports: A privacy breach involving customers’ auto insurance files has netted a Winnipeg insurance broker a $1,000 fine. Manitoba Public Insurance determined that last fall broker Basil Galarnyk accessed customer information 42 times without performing any transactions and with “no discernible reason” for accessing the files, a discipline panel has found. As a result, MPI…