Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A company that markets cell phone spyware to parents and employers left the data of thousands of its customers—and the information of the people they were monitoring—unprotected online. The data exposed included selfies, text messages, audio recordings, contacts, location, hashed passwords and logins, Facebook messages, among others, according to a security researcher…
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Babysitting app suffers ‘temporary data breach’ of 93,000 users
John E. Dunn reports: Babysitting-booking app Sitter “temporarily” exposed the personal data of 93,000 account holders, according to a researcher who recently discovered the trove of data using the Shodan Internet of Things (IoT) search engine. In a LinkedIn post, Bob Diachenko explains how he found the 2GB MongoDB database on August 13, which contained…
T-Mobile experienced a data breach on August 20th
Update: About 2 million customers are reportedly affected. Alex Wagner reports: T-Mobile today confirmed that it was affected by a security breach. T-Mobile says that on August 20th, it discovered a security breach that affected the accounts of some customers. The malicious party did not get access to any financial data, social security numbers, or…
Darden reports possible data breach of 567,000 payment card numbers at Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen restaurants
Reuters reports: Darden Restaurants Inc said on Wednesday it was recently notified by federal authorities that guest data from certain of its Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen restaurants may have been compromised in a cyber attack incident. The Olive Garden owner said its systems and networks were unaffected by the incident, as the breach occurred on a…
37,000 Eir customers face data breach in laptop theft
Adrian Weckler reports: Some 37,000 Eir customers have been hit by a security breach after a staff laptop was stolen. The telecoms firm said that the breach happened when an unencrypted device was stolen outside an office at the weekend. Customer data exposed included names, email addresses, phone numbers and Eir account numbers. However, Eir…
Canadian Telcos Patch Vulnerability in TRS Systems
Catalin Cimpanu reports on a vulnerability first reported by Project Insecurity researchers: All major Canadian internet service providers (ISPs) have patched a vulnerability this week in their telecommunications relay services (TRSs). TRS systems, or IP-relays, are telco-provided services that allow people with disabilities —such as deafness or speech disorders— to place calls to standard telephone…