Raphael Satter of Associated Press reports: Users of a chat service linked to the heavily-trafficked YouPorn website have had their personal information compromised after a third-party service provider failed to secure its data, YouPorn’s owners said Wednesday. Luxembourg-based Manwin Holding SARL said the chat site had been disabled and would remain offline until an investigation…
Category: Hack
Mortal Online hacked, Star Vault encourages users to verify accounts
Jef Reahard reports: If you’ve got an active Mortal Onlne account, you may want to think seriously about changing your password. A new post on the sandbox title’s forum describes a security breach that led to the destruction of in-game assets and account status changes. The intrusion has since been contained, according to a Star Vault GM, and “additional security is…
Cyber thieves piggyback off Stratfor breach
Aliyah Sternstein reports: Hackers posing as officials from the geopolitical analysis publisher Stratfor are emailing infected links to government subscribers whose email addresses were stolen during an earlier raid on the company’s computers, Microsoft researchers say. Read more on NextGov.
UT: Credit card information hacked at Solitude
Meredith Forrest Kulwicki reports: Someone hacked into the credit card system at Solitude Mountain Resort last week, the resort confirmed. The hackers did steal credit card information from some customers, but the resort says the breach was short-lived and only affected a few people. Read more on Fox13
TicketWeb security breached by fake Adobe scammers
Carrie-Ann Skinner reports: TicketWeb has suffered a security breach which saw emails containing malicious links purporting to be from Adobe sent to its customers. On February 11 customers of the British ticketing site reported receiving up to four emails all with the subject ‘Action Required: Update Your PDF Application’. The email claimed that the recipient’s…
Microsoft Store hacked in India, passwords stored in plain text
Sean Buckley reports: Frequenters of India’s online Microsoft Store were briefly greeted with the suspicious visage of a Guy Fawkes mask this morning, following a hack that compromised the site’s user database. According toWPSauce, Microsoft Store India’s landing page was briefly taken over by a hacker group called Evil Shadow Team, who, in addition to putting a…