Cyrus Farivar reports: On Tuesday, Zynga sued two of its former employees. The company claims they stole confidential information and took it to their new employer, rival social gaming startup, Scopely. Massimo Maietti and Ehud Barlach worked as higher-up employees for the San Francisco-based Zynga until they left in July and September, respectively. Scopely, which makes Dice with Buddies, Wheel…
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National Lottery suffers data breach, exposes 26,500 customer accounts
Kelly Fiveash reports: Thousands of National Lottery players have been exposed to a data breach allowing malefactors to potentially ransack customers’ transaction history, date of birth, bank sort code, and the last four digits of their bank account number, its operator Camelot confirmed on Wednesday morning. The company—which has 9.5 million players on its books—said…
Hackers Are Trading Hundreds of Thousands of xHamster Porn Account Details
Joseph Cox reports: Hundreds of thousands of user account details for porn site xHamster are being traded on the digital underground. The database of nearly 380,000 users, provided to Motherboard by for-profit breach notification site LeakBase, includes usernames, email addresses, and what appears to be poorly-hashed passwords. Although xHamster is a free porn site, users can sign…
Barrett Brown leaves prison still chained to a crime he didn’t commit
Dell Cameron reports: Dallas-based journalist Barrett Brown walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after spending more than four years behind bars. The 35-year-old cause célèbre, convicted in January 2015 after spending more than two years in pretrial confinement, faces a laundry list of post-release restrictions and obligations, including drug treatment, mental health evaluations, and computer monitoring. Read…
Prison sentence for former network admin who shutdown his former employer, an ISP
Howard Sheppard has the follow-up to a case where a disgruntled network admin took revenge on his former employer: Darius J. Prugar, 32, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today in federal court in Harrisburg by Sylvia H. Rambo to 24 months in prison for computer hacking and wire fraud. A jury convicted Prugar in…
Hong Kong government seeks legal advice on leak of confidential data on contentious housing project
Naomi Ng reports: Hong Kong’s Development Bureau is seeking legal advice on whether a government-commissioned consultancy illegally leaked official data to a private developer involved in a housing development at Wang Chau in Yuen Long. The planned private development is next to a site set aside for a controversial public housing project. The revelation comes…