Alessandro Carrara reports: Budget hotel chain Travelodge has been hit by a security breach which allowed an unauthorised third party to steal guest names and emails. Travelodge was notified by Typeform, a company which manages customer surveys and competitions, that it had been the victim of a data security incident which affected Travelodge customer information…
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Costa Coffee Applicant Details Hacked in PageUp Breach
Ed Targett reports: The personal details of Costa Coffee and Premier Inn job applicants have been stolen after a data breach of owner Whitbread’s online recruitment system, run by Australia’s PageUp, the company confirmed today. Bedfordshire-headquartered multinational Whitbread was hit after PageUp was hacked last month, in an incident that exposed the details of current…
Fortnum & Mason shoppers’ details stolen in Typeform’s data breach
Natasha Bernal reports: Fortnum & Mason has admitted that thousands of customers have had their personal data stolen in a cyber attack on the upmarket grocer. The retailer said that around 23,000 of its shoppers had seen their names, email addresses and home addresses, as well as social media handles, compromised by hackers. The breach occurred…
Chinese police bust 7 suspects in large data theft operation
Xinhua reports on a huge bust: Police in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region announced Friday that they have arrested seven suspects for stealing more than 2 billion items of personal data. The data included people’s email accounts and passwords, ID numbers, cellphone numbers and payment accounts from more than 60 countries and regions, said…
FBI: Man arrested at Rochester tanning salon stole photos, passwords from 150 victims
WHAM reports: A Rochester man previously charged with recording a woman at a tanning salon in Rochester without her permission may have stolen personal information and photos from as many as 150 victims, according to an FBI investigation. On December 7, 2016, investigators with the Rochester Police Department said a woman at the Zoom Tan…
Typeform Announces Breach After Hacker Grabs Backup File
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Barcelona-based online survey and form building service Typeform announced a data breach today after an unknown attacker downloaded a backup file containing sensitive customer information. The backup file contained data gathered by Typeform customers through surveys and online forms up until May 3, 2018. Read more on BleepingComputer.