Julie Iles reports that estimates of the PageUp breach impact on BP applicants has increased significantly: BP says a hack of its online recruitment portal has compromised the data of more job applicants than initially suspected. BP has emailed about 60,000 people who applied for jobs in its retail stores since 2008 to notify them they could have…
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MyEtherWallet Warns of [Another] Hack, Urges Hola Users to Move Funds
CCN reports: Popular Ethereum wallet interface and token wallet MyEtherWallet is – yet again – at the center of a significant security breach and has warned its users utilizing a popular VPN to move their funds. MyEtherWallet (MEW) is now reeling from its second major security compromise in under three months after claiming hackers compromised…
Singapore Taekwondo Federation fined $30,000 for leak of students’ data
ChannelNewsAsia reports: The Singapore Taekwondo Federation has been fined S$30,000 after the NRIC numbers of 782 minors were disclosed via PDF documents on its website. The issue was discovered on May 19 last year when a complainant came across PDF documents with the names and schools of students participating in the 2017 Annual Inter-School Taekwondo Championships,…
Another Crypto(Currency) Fail: Hackers Steal $23.5 Million from Token Service Bancor
Jeff John Roberts reports: A controversial cryptocurrency project known as Bancor—which last year raised $153 million to create a digital token exchange—hit another stumble: On Monday afternoon, the company announced hackers had raided one of its online wallets to the tune of $23.5 million. News of the robbery came hours after Bancor disclosed it had…
Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s notify customers of attack
Thanks to Catalin Cimpanu of Bleeping Computer. Catalin called my attention to a notification from Macy’s about a breach affecting Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com customers. I had actually tweeted about that breach notification last week but I seem to have forgotten to post anything here. What I had tweeted was: I don’t often see this kind…
Security Firm Sued for Failing to Detect Malware That Caused a 2009 Breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two insurance companies are suing a cyber-security firm to recover insurance fees paid to a customer after the security firm failed to detect malware on the client’s network for months, an issue that led to one of the biggest security breaches of the 2000s. Read more on Bleeping Computer about how Lexington Insurance…