Alexander J. Martin reports: Sports Direct has left its 30,000-strong workforce in the dark over a data breach in the autumn when a hacker accessed internal systems containing staffers’ personal information. The Register can reveal the UK’s largest sports retail business was the subject of a digital break-in during September, when an attacker exploited public vulnerabilities…
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Laptop-light GoCardless says customers’ personal data may have been lifted
John Leyden reports: London-based payment processing firm GoCardless is warning customers that their personal information might have been exposed following the theft of 19 laptops from its offices last month. The “password protected” (not encrypted) laptops contained a file with customer personal data including email address, passport number, date of birth, and name. Leak of…
Pro-Trump group hacked, website taken down in Cabinet fight
Tom LoBianco reports: A prolific Republican super PAC pushing President Donald Trump’s Cabinet took down its website temporarily Monday after hackers got in and retitled sections “Make America S****y Again” and scrawled “Black Lives Matter” across the video section. The 45 Committee — a PAC started by mega-donors Todd Ricketts and Sheldon Adelson — released…
Hackers demand £1 million from David Beckham’s advisers
Hannah reports: As if exposing David Beckham’s rants regarding his missed opportunity of knighthood were not enough, hackers demanded almost a million euros from his advisers. According to a report from Mirror, these hackers were believed to be using Russian servers to access files and messages from the database in a sports agency headed by Simon Oliveira,…
Used government computers bought at auction filled with personal information
The 1980s called…. Scott Noll reports that a KHOU investigation “once again found the City of Houston selling private, personal information through online auctions of used government equipment.” What did they find, you wonder? “On one of the computers, we found a database containing over 100,000 medical records,” explained computer expert Gary Huestis. They do…
Denuvo Website Leaks Secret Information, Crackers Swarm
While the folks at Denuvo are leaders in the field of video game protection, the same cannot be said about their website. In an embarrassing blunder, the company has left some directories and files open to the public and right now members of the cracking community are downloading and scrutinizing the contents. Read more on…