Telecompaper reports: French internet host OVH informed its customers on 22 July that the private data of a few hundreds of thousands of European private and business customers had been compromised by a hacker. Founder and CEO Octave Klaba wrote to subscribers that the internal network of its headquarters in Roubaix was breached when a…
Category: Business Sector
Tinder’s privacy breach lasted much longer than the company claimed
Zachary Seward reports: Mobile dating app Tinder appears to have exposed the physical location of its users for much longer than a “few hours,” as the company’s chief executive claimed. New evidence suggests the privacy breach dated back at least two weeks. Quartz reported yesterday that the data files sent from Tinder’s servers to its apps had been…
KPMG found leaking data, as it criticises every single company in the FTSE 350 for doing the same
And irony meters everywhere explode. Graham Cluley explains.
Citi Bike: Customer Credit Cards Exposed
The Wall Street Journal reports: A Citi Bike software glitch accidentally exposed sensitive personal and financial information—including credit card numbers—of more than 1,000 of its account holders, the bike sharing program’s operators wrote in a letter last week to the affected customers. The data breach occurred on April 15, according to a letter sent to…
Viber Media hacked by Syrian Electronic Army? It appears so… (UPDATE: Viber claims no hack)
It appears that Viber Media has been hacked by the SEA. The defacement on the site’s support page reads: Dear All Viber Users, The Israeli-based “Viber” is spying and tracking you We weren’t able to hack all Viber systems, but most of it is designed for spying and tracking A screenshot, displayed on the support…
Hackers hit Lakeland with “sophisticated and sustained attack”, passwords reset
Graham Cluley reports: Kitchenware store Lakeland has emailed customers telling them that hackers managed to gain unauthorised access to its web systems and databases late last week. Although the company has confirmed that hackers accessed “two encrypted databases”, it has been unable to ascertain whether information was stolen. Read more on his blog.