Dell Cameron reports: A misconfigured storage device discovered by a security researcher in October left exposed thousands of internal files belonging to an explosives-handling company. The files, which have since been secured, reportedly included details about facilities in three U.S. states where explosives are stored. The leaky file repository belonged to Allied-Horizontal Wireline Services(AHWS), a leading wireline company…
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Notice of Data Incident to the Past and Present Clients of Hillary Tentler, CPA
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 30, 2016 — On November 4, 2016, Hillary Tentler discovered that her home was broken into that day. Upon discovery, she immediately notified the Santa Barbara CountySheriff’s office and a police report was filed. Unfortunately, along with personal effects, the burglars stole three back up hard drives for her CPA practice. On November 9, 2016, the Sheriff’s…
Check Point reveals 1,000,000 Gmail accounts were hacked
Arutz Sheva reports: Security researchers at Israeli software security company Check Point revealed Wednesday that a fresh Android security breach has resulted in more than one million Google accounts being hacked, accordng to a Channel 2 report. According to the company’s researchers, attackers were able to gain access to the personal information of over one million GMAIL…
Zynga sues 2 former employees over alleged massive data heist
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…
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…