Update: On September 11, DataBreaches.net received a response from Translate.com, which appears at the bottom of this post. Florian Faes writes: How would you feel if your letter of resignation were posted online? Or sensitive parts of your employment contract? Or details of that M&A deal you have been working on with an investment bank?…
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Former Columbia Sportswear Company employee pleads guilty to hacking network
There’s an update to an insider breach noted previously on this site: On Wednesday, August, 30, 2017, Michael Leeper, 41, of Tigard, Oregon, pleaded guilty in United States District Court to intentionally accessing the Columbia Sportswear Company’s network without authorization in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030. From May 2000 to February 2014, Leeper was…
Hacked Equifax data up for sale?
And so it begins. By this morning, there was already one potential class-action lawsuit against Equifax that had been announced, and at least two ads offering what is alleged to be hacked Equifax data for sale. Indeed, things haven’t been going exactly swimmingly for Equifax since it announced its mega-breach that may impact up to…
Credit reporting firm Equifax says data breach could potentially affect 143 million US consumers
Uh oh. Todd Haselton reports: Equifax, which supplies credit information and other information services, said Thursday that a data breach could have potentially affected 143 million consumers in the United States. The population of the U.S. was about 324 million as of Jan. 1, 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which means the Equifax…
AXA data breach affects 5,400 Singapore customers
The personal data of 5,400 customers of AXA Insurance in Singapore has been stolen due to a cyber attack. The life insurance firm sent out an e-mail to affected customers on Thursday (Sept 7), notifying them of the data breach. In the e-mail, AXA’s data protection officer Eric Lelyon said: “We wish to inform you…
Taringa hacked: 28 million users’ credentials compromised – LeakBase
Mohit Kumar reports: If you have an account on Taringa, also known as “The Latin American Reddit,” your account details may have compromised in a massive data breach that leaked login details of almost all of its over 28 million users. Taringa is a popluar social network geared toward Latin American users, who create and…