The online professional networking website LinkedIn has confirmed that “some” of its users’ passwords were stolen when it was hacked today, but the person responsible says it’s almost 6.5 million. In a blog post earlier this morning, the LinkedIn team posted: “We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn…
Category: Breach Incidents
Last.fm and eHarmony passwords stolen (updated)
The Last.fm music site and the eHarmony dating service said some user passwords were stolen, a day after another online company, LinkedIn, confirmed a security breach. “We are currently investigating the leak of some Last.fm user passwords,” the London-based company, which recommends music to listeners, said today on its website. “As a precautionary measure, we’re…
City laptop with residents’ data stolen from library
The New Haven Register reports on a laptop theft that occurred on May 23: A laptop used by an Elderly Services Specialist to input data for the Rent Rebate program was stolen recently from the Mitchell Branch Library, but there is no reason to believe anyone has accessed the data stored on the laptop, city…
No evidence that Pharmacist.com hack involved patient records (updated)
As I had suggested previously in several tweets, those involved in the hack of Pharmacist.com may not have understood some of the data were that they acquired in the hack. They certainly didn’t understand the nature of their target. In a statement disclosing the hack, reproduced on CyberWarNews.info, the hackers had written: In an effort…
TN: Personal Records Found in Dumpster
Some breaches make me want to curse. This news report out of Sevierville, Sevier County in Tennessee makes me want to yell, “When the hell are businesses going to start getting fined for just dumping unshredded files with PII?” … Kim Pierce runs a video store in Sevierville and was shocked at what she found…
Ca: Government kiosks pulled from service
Kim Zarzour reports: ServiceOntario kiosks at Vaughan Mills and Promenade Mall were two of the four locations where a security breach prompted the government to shut down all 72 of the electronic booths across Ontario this week. The automated self-service kiosks at the two York Region sites, along with booths at Albion Centre in Etobicoke…