Pádraig Hoare reports: Irish customers were among those who had data stolen by hackers on one of the world’s most popular hotel booking sites, Hotels.com, the company has confirmed. The website has sent compromised customers an email advising that their username, password, email address, and the last four digits of stored credit card numbers were…
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Russian suspected hacker moves step closer to US extradition
Shaun Walker reports: A Russian suspected hacker has moved a step closer to being sent to the US as a Czech judge gave tentative approval for an extradition to go ahead, during a court hearing held inside a high-security prison in Prague. Yevgeniy Nikulin, who was arrested at a restaurant in the Czech capital last…
Laptop stolen from Tulsa firm contained customers’ personal data
Abby Bitterman reports: Personal information of about 3,400 customers may have been compromised in an internal theft of a Tulsa-based medical supplier database. In a statement on its website, LKM Medical said two employees on Jan. 3 stole a company computer with customer information stored on it. The employees have been fired. “This discovery is…
Hackers in South Korea arrested after breach of hotel app
John Culbertson reports: Hackers suspected of breaching a popular South Korean mobile app and stealing the personal data of more than 990,000 users have been arrested, local police say. South Korean television network YTN reported Thursday the hotel and guesthouse reservation app “Good Choice” was hacked in March by a group that operated in the…
Customer data stolen as S.F. cybersecurity firm hacked, Stanford medical school reportedly a client
Ethan Baron reports: Cybersecurity is big business in the Bay Area, with new firms popping up virtually every week to meet the global demand for data protection in a world teeming with sophisticated hackers. Now one of the region’s more established firms has been hacked, with customer data stolen, according to a company blog post…
OneLogin: Breach Exposed Ability to Decrypt Data
Brian Krebs reports: OneLogin, an online service that lets users manage logins to sites and apps from a single platform, says it has suffered a security breach in which customer data was compromised, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data. Headquartered in San Francisco, OneLogin provides single sign-on and identity management for cloud-base applications. OneLogin…