Dan Goodin reports: Hackers posted names, e-mail addresses, message histories, and partially protected login credentials for more than 158,000 forum users of Boxee.tv, the Web-based television service that was acquired by Samsung last year, researchers said. The breach occurred no later than last week, when a full copy of the purloined forum data became widely available,…
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JSTOR notifying 800 users that account information was accessed by unauthorized individual(s)
JSTOR, a not-for-profit founded to help academic libraries and publishers (and part of ITHAKA), is notifying 800 users of a breach discovered on March 17: RE: Important Security Notice from JSTOR We are writing to let you know that your MyJSTOR account was recently accessed without authorization by a third party. What this means to you…
United Opt Out attacked; site destroyed
Shame on whoever did this: someone attacked United Opt Out, an information resource and advocacy site for parents who want to opt their children out of mandated state tests/high stakes testing. The organization also resists “market-based reforms that seek to privatize and destroy public education.” In a statement sent to DataBreaches.net, Peggy Robertson, one of…
Bank drops lawsuit against Target and Trustwave
Jeremy Kirk reports that Trustmark National Bank, one of the two plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by banks against Target and Trustwave, has filed a notice of voluntary dismissal to drop their role in the lawsuit. Because the lawsuit was dropped without prejudice, the bank may re-file the suit at some point, although I suspect…
Claims that Trustwave was responsible for monitoring Target’s network “baseless” – Trustwave
Yesterday, Trustwave issued a statement on its website about allegations made in lawsuits against Target naming it as a co-defendant. The letter, signed by Trustwave CEO Robert J. McCullen reads: March 29, 2014 Dear Customers and Business Partners, As some of you may know, Trustwave was recently named as a defendant in lawsuits relating to the…
Hacked Japanese Building Research Institute responds to hack
A hacker who identifies him/herself as BH_Hacker has dumped data on Pastebin that allegedly comes from a kenken.go.jp database. The National Institute of Building Research identifies itself as an incorporated administrative agency of Japan. The data dump contains 330 records with first and last names, usernames, email addresses, and telephone numbers. With one exception, there were…