Sarah Perez reports: We Heart It, an image-sharing site used by 40 million teens as of a couple of years ago, is informing users their personal data may have been compromised. The company was alerted to a possible security breach last week that involved over 8 million accounts, it said on Friday. The breach took…
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Pizza Hut was hacked, company says
Josh Magness and Donovan Harrell report: Pizza Hut told customers by email on Saturday that some of their personal information may have been compromised. Some of those customers are angry that it took almost two weeks for the fast food chain to notify them. Read more on SacBee. I don’t see any notification on Pizza…
T-Mobile Website Allowed Hackers to Access Your Account Data With Just Your Phone Number
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Until last week, a bug on a T-Mobile website let hackers access personal data such as email address, a customer’s T-Mobile account number, and the phone’s IMSI, a standardized unique number that identifies subscribers. On Friday, a day after Motherboard asked T-Mobile about the issue, the company fixed the bug. The flaw,…
Splitting hairs? After investigation, Equifax says it was not hacked again
Liz Moyer reports: Equifax says its systems were not compromised in the latest cyberbreach scare to hit the firm. Shares of the credit reporting company sank earlier on Thursday after Equifax said it had disabled one of its customer help online pages and was investigating another possible cyberbreach. They closed down about 1.69 percent. In…
Hyatt Hotels Suffers 2nd Card Breach in 2 Years
Brian Krebs reports: Hyatt Corp. is alerting customers about another credit card breach at some hotels, the second major incident with the hospitality chain in as many years. Hyatt said its cyber security team discovered signs of unauthorized access to payment card information from cards manually entered or swiped at the front desk of certain Hyatt-managed locations between…
Equifax: Umm, actually hackers stole records of 15.2 million Brits, not 400,000
David Bisson writes: Equifax has confirmed that a recent data breach exposed a file containing 15.2 million UK personal information records. On 10 October 2017, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) confirmed the Equifax data breach disclosed in September 2017 actually compromised 15.2 million UK records. That’s considerably more than 400,000, the number of consumers…