Venkat Balasubramani discusses the decision in Holmes v. Countrywide Financial Corp., et al.: In August 2008, a Countrywide employee engaged in a scheme to steal confidential customer information from Countrywide. An investigation found that the employee gained access to data from 2.4 million loan customers, and sold this information to unknown third parties for the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Android Forums Breached, 1,000,000+ User Account Details At Risk
In what has so far been a huge week for high profile and large data based hacks another big forum has noticed a breach and come out with an alert for the community that has over 1.3millions users. The site that was effect is adroidforums.com which is a dedicated help forums that belong to Phandroid.com. The…
Bitcoinica breach done by leaked source code results In 40,000+ being stolen
Back in may, well known and trusted bitcoin service Bitcoinica was breached and bitcoins were stolen as a result. Since then the website has claim to shut down and has a "claims" process for those who were effected in the main breach. Well it appears that from that hack others were able to obtain access to…
860+ Sites Defaced By 3CA, 3xp1r3 Cyber Army
3xp1r3 Cyber Army hackers have been busy this week. After making a post to pastebin with the most recent mass deface listing we was surprised to see that it was 860 sites. 3CA is well known for its hacking and defacing of websites and they are one of the few crews who do real main…
CA: Customers at Orcutt Burger Restaurant Hit With Debit Card Fraud
Rachel Laine reports: Customers at a local restaurant are hit with debit card fraud. The Coast Hills Federal Credit Union is sending out an alert about the Orcutt Burger Restaurant. The credit union says it has stopped all signature-based debit transactions to prevent further theft from any debit card activity. Coast Hills says customers can still…
Brewster’s Address Book App Briefly Exposes Ashton Kutcher’s & Others’ Private Data; Company Says It’s Fixed
Sarah Perez reports: Brewster, the hot, new personalized address book app for iPhone, launched to much fanfare this week. But it also launched with a concerning bug. Some users reported they had the ability to see the personal contact information for people they shouldn’t have had access to, including the likes of one Mr. Ashton…