Shivali Best reports: Users of a shady porn site that posts ‘upskirt’ pictures of women could have their dirty secrets exposed. Personal details of 180,000 users of The Candid Board have been uploaded to the internet after a security breach, along with details of their time of last login. Among the details were 68 military…
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Realty firm fined $10,000 by Singapore regulator for data security failure
Singapore’s Personal Data Commission has imposed a $10,000 penalty on Propnex Realty for failing to make reasonable security arrangements to prevent unauthorized access of individuals’ personal data stored online. On December 28, 2015, the Personal Data Protection Commission (“Commission”) received a complaint from a complainant in relation to the publication online of the Propnex Realty’s internal…
Russians suspected of hacking Wisconsin Dems
From the I-just-report-’em-I-don’t-necessarily-believe-them dept. Paul Srubas reports: County websites of the Democratic Party in the area have been under attack, at least one apparently by Russian hackers, an officer of the party said. What appears to have been Russian hackers compromised the website of the 8th Congressional District Democratic Party as well as the sites of…
Telus releases Hamilton woman’s personal information to her stalker
Adam Carter reports on a small-N breach that reminds us all how horrifying the consequences of a privacy breach can be: A Hamilton woman says Telus violated her privacy and put her and her family in grave danger by allowing her stalker to access her phone account without her consent. Ellie, whose name has been…
218,000 AlphaBay marketplace users’ private messages acquired by bug hunter
If you’re a darknet vendor who has the skills to really test the security of marketplaces where you might hawk your wares, what do you do? Well, if you’re a vendor known as “Cipher0007” on reddit, and you find problems, you try to alert the marketplace, and then go public if they don’t respond promptly. This…
SEC probing Yahoo over previously disclosed cyber breach: filing
Suzanne Barlyn reports: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a previously disclosed data breach at Yahoo Inc, the company said in a filing. Yahoo said in a November 2016 quarterly filing that it was “cooperating with federal, state and foreign” agencies, including the SEC, that were seeking information and documents about a “security…