Pierluigi Paganini reports: Sodexo food services and facilities management company notified a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform, Filmology and it is urging them to cancel their credit cards. The service rewards UK employee via discounted cinema tickets, the website was taken down in response…
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Singapore teen who hacked NFL Twitter account gets 24 months’ probation
Suhaile Md reports: A Singaporean student who hacked into the official US National Football League’s (NFL) Twitter account was sentenced to 24 months probation at the State Courts on Thursday (5 April). Devesh Logendran, 18, pleaded guilty to 11 charges under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act. Read more on Yahoo! News Singapore.
Best Buy hit by [24]7.ai data breach, too
Sean Hollister reports: Earlier today, we learned that hundreds of thousands of Delta Airlines, Sears and Kmart online shoppers may have had their names, addresses, and credit card information stolen by hackers. Now, you can add Best Buy to that list. The big-box electronics retailer says it was also affected by the same breach, due…
DriveHer, ride-sharing app for women, suspends service after data breach exposes personal information
Jaren Kerr reports: The owner of a ride-sharing app created to increase safety and security for women drivers and riders has suspended its services after learning that its user data was vulnerable to a breach. DriveHer, which launched in Toronto in March and has more than 1,000 downloads, was created to both empower women and…
Facebook hackers could have collected personal data of 2 billion users
Craig Timberg, Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin of The Washington Post report: Facebook said Wednesday that “malicious actors” took advantage of search tools on its platform, making it possible for them to discover the identities and collect information on most of its 2 billion users worldwide. The revelation came amid rising acknowledgment by Facebook about…
What to Know About the Latest Data Breach Hitting Sears and Delta Customers
David Meyer reports: Both Sears and Delta Air Lines are facing the exposure of some of their customers’ credit card information, following a data breach at a mutual contractor. The company, a customer services operation called [24]7.ai, suffered the breach between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12 last year. It said in a statement that the…