Dan Thorp-Lancaster reports: The team behind Touchnote, a popular Android app for sending photos you’ve taken as postcards, has sent an email out to customers announcing that the service was hit by a data breach, resulting in customer information such as name and address being accessed. Read more on Android Central. From the FAQ on…
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In a first, the FCC is fining a major cable company for getting hacked
Brian Fung reports: In the first such case against a U.S. cable company, federal regulators are slapping Cox Communications with a $595,000 fine after Cox allowed hackers from Lizard Squad to penetrate its systems and steal private customer information. By posing as an IT administrator and tricking a couple of Cox employees into giving up their login credentials, a…
NC: Hacker changes grades at Panther Creek High School in Cary
T. Keung Hui reports: Cary Police are investigating after a hacker broke into the computer system at Panther Creek High School and changed the grades for some students, altering class ranks during the important college application period. In a letter posted on the school’s website Thursday, Panther Creek High Principal Camille Hedrick told families that the…
How Hackers Breached Two Gambling Payment Providers To Harvest ‘Millions’ Of Records ) (UPDATED)
Two breaches seemed small and innocuous at the time, but weren’t. A timely reminder why entities should notify even when they think risk is low. Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: In 2009 and 2010 two separate attacks hit widely-used online gambling payments processors Moneybookers and Neteller. Though they initially appeared innocuous, it now seems both attacks saw millions of…
TalkTalk offers customer £30.20 ‘final settlement’ after crims nick £3,500
TalkTalk is really turning out to be the poster child for how not to handle a breach. In today’s installment of “Lollipops are Adequate Mitigation, Right?” Alexander J. Martin reports: TalkTalk is trying and failing to mend its broken customer relationships following the recent mega breach, in one case offering an individual who had £3,500 stolen…
Fourth arrest in TalkTalk case
A fourth person has been arrested in connection with the investigation into alleged data theft from TalkTalk. On the evening of Tuesday, 3 November, detectives from the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit (MPCCU) and officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) executed a search warrant at an address in Norwich. A 16-year-old boy [D] was…