In November, 2015, this site noted a breach involving VTech. At the time, Motherboard reported: The hacked data includes names, email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents who have bought products sold by VTech, which has almost $2 billion in revenue. The dump also includes the first names, genders and birthdays of more than 200,000 kids….
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WestJet says some rewards members’ profile data leaked online
CBC News reports: WestJet says it is working with police in Calgary and the RCMP cybercrime unit after some members’ profile data was disclosed online. The airline said in a news release Friday night that profile data of some WestJet Rewards members was disclosed online “by an unauthorized third party.” The Calgary-based airline says no credit card or banking information was…
Seagate To Settle Phishing Scam With $5.75M In-Kind Deal
Seagate was one of many companies whose employee W-2 data were phished in 2016. In September 2016, the employees sued over the incident. Now Dave Simpson reports that the suit has a tentative settlement: Seagate Technologies LLC has agreed to a settlement that includes services valued at $5.75 million to end a proposed class action…
Microsoft opens up a new front in the battle against Fancy Bear
John E. Dunn reports: Can anyone – or anything – take on well-resourced nation state hacking groups? Protected by anonymity and plausible deniability, conventional wisdom says not, but conventional wisdom ignores a company like Microsoft wielding a secret weapon with the power to hinder even the cleverest hacking group: lawyers. This, it has emerged, is…
45,000 Facebook Users Leave One-Star Ratings After Hacker’s Unjust Arrest
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Over 45,000 users have left one-star reviews on a company’s Facebook page after the business reported a security researcher to police and had him arrested in the middle of the night instead of fixing a reported bug. The arrest took place this week in Hungary after an 18-year-old found a flaw in…
Ricoh Australia Scrambles to Fix Document Leak
Jeremy Kirk reports: Ricoh’s Australia office has notified banks, government agencies, universities and many large businesses about a curious data breach that, in some cases, exposed login credentials for its multifunction devices. It’s unclear how the documents – called run-up guides – were exposed on the internet and indexed by Google’s search engine. Ricoh says…