Mary Beth Faller reports some interesting details about the Maricopa Community Colleges breach noted previously on this blog: The Maricopa County Community College District waited seven months to notify 2.4 million current and former students and employees that their academic or personal data were compromised in an April security breach. […] The FBI notified the…
Category: Hack
Yoke’s, Rosauers urge customers to not use cards amid network hack
Tom Sowa reports: Some Spokane-area grocery stores, including all 12 Yoke’s Fresh Markets and 21 Rosauers stores, are telling customers that debit and credit card payments won’t be processed normally while investigators try to secure a computer network that was hacked over the past two months. The data breach was reported in recent weeks by local…
Evernote tells some users to change their passwords. (Psst! It’s Adobe’s fault…)
Graham Cluley writes: Just like Facebook before it, Evernote has been scouring the list of millions of email addresses and passwords exposed by the recent mega-breach at Adobe. And, if Evernote finds an email address in Adobe’s breached database that matches that belonging to an Evernote user, they are sending them a message telling them to…
RacingPost.com hacked; change your passwords
The following statement was posted on RacingPost.com this morning: Stringent new measures are being put in place to prevent a repeat of the security breach that has affected racingpost.com. In the meantime, the website is completely safe to use as you wish because we have removed all log-in and registration functionality. Betting through the site…
Kroll Background America hacked (update4)
Kroll Background America was hacked sometime between June and September of this year. In late October, they determined that 548 California residents had their information acquired. That information included names, and in some instances their dates of birth, addresses, and social security numbers. Those whose SSN was acquired are being offered free ID theft services from Kroll…
GitHub resets user passwords following rash of account-hijack attacks
Dan Goodin reports: GitHub is experiencing an increase in user account hijackings that’s being fueled by a rash of automated login attempts from as many as 40,000 unique Internet addresses. The site for software development projects has already reset passwords for compromised accounts and banned frequently used weak passcodes, officials said in an advisory published Tuesday…