Swati Khandelwal reports: A hacker who was selling details of nearly 620 million online accounts stolen from 16 popular websites has now put up a second batch of 127 million records originating from 8 other sites for sale on the dark web. Last week, The Hacker News received an email from a Pakistani hacker who…
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Researchers Reveal Suspect Behind Collection #1 Mega Breach
Sir Julio reports: A U.S.-based cybersecurity firm, Recorded Future, alleges to have identified a hacker allegedly responsible for exposing stolen data in a recent leak dubbed Collection #1. Experts from Recorded Future’s threat intel team have claimed that the hacker goes by the pseudonym “C0rpz.” According to the company, multiple individuals came out claiming to serve as the source of the breached data. Read more on Dark Web News.
Artsy Alerts Users of Data-Security Breach; Report Claims Hacked Information for Sale
Alex Greenberg reports: In an email sent to its users on Wednesday evening, the chief technology officer of Artsy—an online platform that offers views into the art world as well as works for sale for prices between “$100 to over $1,000,000,” as its website states—alerted users to “a data security incident that may have impacted…
Coffee Meets Bagel notifies users of breach
One of a number of newly disclosed breaches reported by The Register this week was one involving 6 million users of a dating web site, Coffee Meets Bagel. The Register reported that 6,174,513 accounts were listed for sale for 0.13 BTC ($468) total on a dark web marketplace. DataBreaches.net’s investigation revealed that the market was…
FL: AdventHealth notifying more than 42,000 patients impacted by hack of one of their facilities
On January 25, ClickOrlando reported: A hack at a pulmonary practice in Tavares might have exposed sensitive patient information, including Social Security numbers and medical histories. Officials from AdventHealth said in a news release on Friday that an unauthorized third party gained access to systems at AdventHealth Medical Group Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine at Tavares, formerly…
DataCamp notifies users of hack, forces password reset
On February 11, DataCamp discovered that it had been hacked. With thanks to “Russy” for sending this along, the following is DataCamp’s update on the situation, posted today by Robert Cabral: DataCamp Security Update – Frequently Asked Questions What happened? On Monday, February 11, 2019, we discovered that some user data was exposed by a…