Matt Reynolds reports: Publishers of “World of Warcraft” and other blockbuster video games make millions by “deceptively and unfairly” charging customers for an after-sale security product to protect their private information from hackers, a class action claims in Federal Court. Lead plaintiff Benjamin Bell sued Blizzard Entertainment, of Irvine, and its corporate parent, Santa Monica-based…
Category: Breach Incidents
Personal Info Of Hundreds Of Philly Voters Dumped On Street Corner
Bruce Gordon reports: The privacy of hundreds upon hundreds of Philadelphia voters may have been violated this week, when piles of documents used in “Get Out The Vote” calls were left sitting on a Philly street corner. A woman who identified herself only as “Eileen” showed us cell phone pictures of documents piled in, on…
Companies that Own and Manage Payday Lending and Check Cashing Stores to Settle FTC Charges That They Tossed Sensitive Consumer Data into Trash Dumpsters
Well, you read it here already, but now the FTC has officially announced its settlement with PLS Financial and Payday Loan Store over dumping of customer data.
LG Hungary, Korea Hacked, Accounts Leaked
LG has suffered yet another blow and this time the hacker who is apart of Turkish Ajan Hacker Group, @Maxn3y who contact us with two breaches that have been carried out on the Hungarian based LG mobile subdomain and on subdomain of the Korean site. The breach has also resulted in one of the sites being defaced which appears to be…
Interview with @XTnR3v0LT from xl3gi0n
Below is just a raw interview with @XTnR3v0LT from xLegion hackers. Over the past few days they have been carrying out an operation dubbed Opleak which at time of publishing had resulted in 49 websites having data leaked. Q: What was it that lead you to the hacking scene? A: i just want to prove to all those who think…
Hack attack: Pizza Hut loses customer information
Ben Grubb reports: Pizza Hut says hackers gained access to the personal information of its customers via its website. Users of the Whirlpool broadband forum and social news website Reddit first noticed the pizza maker’s website had been defaced on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday evening Pizza Hut general manager Graeme Houston issued a statement to technology websites ZDNet and Gizmodo confirming details…