Bryan Wolfe reports: Sunrise Atelier, Inc. is alerting its Sunrise Calendar users that its database provider has experienced a security breach. As a result, users are being asked to change their iCloud passwords just to be safe. According to a posting on the Sunrise blog, and email to users, MongoHQ servers were breached. Read more on AppAdvice.com….
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XSplit Password Reset Alert – Protecting Your Twitch Account
The following was posted yesterday on Twitch: Attention Broadcasters: If you are currently or have in the past used XSplit to stream to Twitch, please read this carefully. It has come to our attention that various data on XSplit’s servers have been compromised. In particular, your XSplit credentials (account name and password), as well as…
Are we getting blasé?
This morning, an excited tweeter urged people to nominate Adobe’s breach to the Guiness Book of World Records because it reportedly involved 150 million usernames and hashed passwords. I responded that there was already a breach on the books involving 150 million – the Shanghai Roadway D&B Marketing Services Co. Ltd breach, so at 150M,…
Who’s running^^^^^^^ ruining the store?
On October 22, Global Times reported: YTO Express, one of China’s largest express delivery companies, has been unable to stop employees from selling customer information to online dealers, despite its ongoing efforts to stamp out the practice, a company spokesman said Tuesday. The company’s admission illustrates the difficulty that the express delivery industry has had…
Breaches have consequences, Wednesday edition
Chandra R Srikanth reports: Nasdaq-listed outsourcing firm EXL Services has lost a key client due to breach of confidential client data by a few of its employees, a development that will impact its revenues and raise larger questions on data security. […] EXL further said that Travelers was ending the contract because it failed to comply with…
Debt Collection Employee and Son-in-Law Sent to Prison for Identity Theft Tax Scheme
A follow-up to a case previously reported on this blog involving an employee of Hollis Cobb Associates: Quentin Collick of Montgomery, Ala., and Deatrice Williams of Duluth, Ga., were sentenced Nov. 1, 2013, to serve 85 and 51 months in prison, respectively. Collick and Williams were previously found guilty by a jury in the Middle…