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…
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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…
The federal police were called after a Sydney startup was blackmailed with hacked customer data
Tony Yoo reports: A Sydney startup has had its customer data stolen with the hackers threatening to publish the information unless bitcoins are paid out. Customers of ticketing platform Qnect, which is widely used by the university sector for organising social events, this week received SMS messages stating that their personal data has been stolen…
Kmart Confirms Credit Card Data Breach
Cody Fenwick reports: Sears Holdings, the parent company of Kmart, confirmed Wednesday that the popular retailer experienced a recent data breach, exposing customer credit card data to criminal hackers. While the company did not say which Kmart locations were affected by the breach, it said that online purchases at kmart.com were not targeted in the…
The Sanctuary Market Pwn3d By Cipher0007
As seen on DarkNetMarket, submitted by Cipher0007: hi to all i like to warning all users to stay away from this market and from any new market, this market has been hacked a few minutes ago. this is info of panel admin : user_name user_pass admin $2y$10$3lvQG2epkFI6DZbzvOUQlO/kcKLAfHCZUDKdt3k/Z59gQnzVINOZi admin2 $2y$10$DEHjWfIBMUGFOj8CQkTZ0.toG/nurhi9IumPAbbtBaBmoCbqFL8va this is info of access to database…
Russian Hackers Are Using Google’s Own Infrastructure to Hack Gmail Users
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Russian government hackers seem to have figured out that sometimes the best way to hack into people’s Gmail accounts is be to abuse Google’s own services. On Thursday, researchers exposed a massive Russian espionage and disinformation campaign using emails designed to trick users into giving up their passwords, a technique that’s known…