UPDATED: Credibility of this leak and the hackers is questionable as it has been pointed out this is duplicated data Today a hacker from Syria has announced a leak of data that comes form one of britains and the worlds most well known and biggest news site, The Times (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/). wiki The leak comes from @SyriaHighFlyer who posted…
Category: Breach Incidents
LivingSocial Hacked — More Than 50 Million Customer Names, Emails, Birthdates and Encrypted Passwords Accessed (Internal Memo)
Update: Double-WOW. Their breach notice is already up on the California Attorney General’s web site. According to their submission to the state, the breach occurred on April 5 and was discovered on April 12. Original post follows: Wow. AllThingsD.com is reporting: LivingSocial, the daily deals site owned in part by Amazon, has suffered a massive…
Two years after a vendor is hacked, OneWest Bank notifies customers
OneWest Bank has been notifying customers of a breach that occurred back in 2011. According to their letter, a copy of which they submitted to California under the state’s breach reporting requirements, the bank recently learned that one of our service providers, was the victim of an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into its network (“Network…
Etsy exposes sellers’ real names in error – again
Ina Steiner writes: In an email sent to shoppers this week, “Fresh Offerings from Your Favorite Shops,” Etsy mistakenly included the names of sellers taken from their credit card information on file. No other credit card information was included in the email. It’s not clear how it happened since all credit card information should be…
When, oh when, will people stop leaving unencrypted laptops in their cars?
OptiNose US Inc. has been notifying some of its consultants that their names and Social Security numbers were on a laptop stolen from an employee’s car. The laptop was stolen on March 26 in a Philadelphia suburb, and OptiNose started sending out notification letters on April 16. The letter did not inform recipients that the…
News Group chief responds to Berkeley privacy breach
Emile Raguso has more on a case where a response to a freedom of information request exposed Social Security numbers on 11,000 municipal employees: Following this week’s disclosure by Berkeley city staff that roughly 11,000 municipal employee social security numbers had been erroneously divulged to a local media outlet in March, the media outlet’s managing editor said…