Ravie Lakshmanan reports: XKCD forum, the bulletin board associated with the popular webcomic XKCD, has been taken offline after personal information of more than 562,000 members was exposed online. According to security researcher Troy Hunt, the breach occurred two months ago (on July 1 2019). The compromised data has been added to breach alerting site…
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122,000 Providence Health Plan customers may be affected by data breach at Dominion National
Ted Sickinger reports: The personal information of as many as 122,000 customers of Providence Health Plan’s dental program in Oregon may have been compromised in a security breach at the program’s administrator, Virginia-based Dominion National. Read more on OregonLive. While 122,000 is a lot of patients potentially affected, it could have been worse if Providence…
For Foxit’s sake: PDF editor biz breached, users’ passwords among stolen data
Gareth Corfield reports: Users of software house Foxit’s free and paid-for products, including its popular PhantomPDF editor, may have fallen victim to a data breach – with stolen data including users’ website passwords. Foxit admitted to the breach earlier today, stating that “third parties” had gained access to its My Account user data. Read more…
Bulgarian lender Banka DSK fined 1M leva for data breach
The Sofia Globe reports: Bulgaria’s commission for personal data protection said on August 28 that it had fined Banka DSK, the country’s second-largest lender by assets, one million leva (about 511 300 euro) for the “illegal disclosure” of the personal data of its customers. In total, the data of 33 492 customers from 23 270…
Hostinger Data Breach Affects Almost 14 Million Customers
Ionut Ilascu reports: Hosting provider Hostinger today announced that it reset the login passwords of 14 million of its customers following a recent security breach that enabled unauthorized access to a client database. The incident occurred on August 23 and a third party was able to access usernames, hashed passwords, emails, first names, and IP…
Hackers successfully breach tens of thousands of Australian banking accounts
Alex Chapman reports: Tens of thousands of Australians have had their personal information hacked by fraudsters. Details, including phone numbers, names, BSB and account details linked to PayID was breached in recent days. Read more on 7News.