Hogan Lovells Chronicle of Data Protection has a commentary on the FTC’s lawsuit against Wyndham (mentioned previously on this blog): On June 26, the FTC filed a complaint against Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, a global hotel and resort company, and three of its subsidiaries for violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act. If this case goes to…
Category: Business Sector
NVIDIA Forums Hacked, User Data Compromised
Tarun Raju reports: Late Thursday, NVIDIA deactivated its user forums (forums.nvidia.com) on the company website, citing security reasons. According to the company, a security breach was discovered (the forums website was hacked). Critical user data may have been compromised (stolen). Even as investigations into the breach are underway, the company ascertained that the hackers gained…
21,485 clear text passwords exposed, allegedly stolen from Billabong
Darren Pauli reports: More than 21,000 clear text passwords have been stolen from Australian surfwear icon Billabong and published online. The breach has yet to be confirmed. SC has notified the company’s IT desk and provided a link to the codepaste site where the details were uploaded. Billabong was previously unaware of the breach. Hacktivists released the credentials under…
Phandroid Forum reports breach, urges password reset
Posted to the Phandroid Forum on July 10: I have some unfortunate news to pass along. Yesterday I was informed by our sever/developer team that the server hosting androidforums.com was compromised and the website’s database was accessed. While the breach is most likely harmless there are important and potential pitfalls, and we want to provide…
Filesharing Admin Arrested for Selling User Database
From Torrent Freak: Italian police have arrested the 49-old operator of a handful of file-sharing sites that were previously shut down. The man, known online under the pseudonym “Tex Willer”, allegedly made over half a million euros profit from the sites. Besides copyright infringement, tax evasion, forgery and fraud, he is also accused of selling…
Hackers post 450K credentials apparently pilfered from Yahoo (update1)
Steven Musil reports: Yahoo appears to have been the victim of a security breach that yielded more than hundreds of thousands of login credentials stored in plain text. The hacked data, posted to the hacker site D33D Company, contained more than 453,000 login credentials and appears to have originated from the Web pioneer’s network. The…