A dumpster diver in Harlingen, Texas hit pay dirt: “Social Security numbers, birthdays, home addresses, home telephone numbers, you name it,” he said. Channel 5 News tracked the documents back to Harlingen Texas Motors, which closed last year. But wait…. it’s probably not what you’re guessing. Read on: We spoke to the owner of the business. He…
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Target data breach settlement remanded by appeals court after two consumers raise concerns
It ain’t over until…. well, no body-shaming here, but Target is not out of the woods on litigation from their massive 2013 breach. Law360 is reporting: The Eighth Circuit decided Wednesday to send back to lower court the $10 million deal that let Target Corp. out of multidistrict litigation over its notorious 2013 data breach,…
2.5 million PlayStation and Xbox players’ details stolen by hackers
Richard Trenholm reports: Millions of Xbox and PSP gamers have had their personal details hacked. A data breach of two popular gaming forums has exposed the account details of 2.5 million users, potentially opening up their other online accounts to attack by hackers. The Xbox360 and PSP ISOs, which host game download files, were hacked in September 2015. That’s…
Witcher 3 dev forums hacked, 1.8 million accounts stolen
Dale Walker reports: Polish game development studio CD Projekt RED has had more than 1.8 million user credentials stolen from its online forum, according to data breach notification website ‘Have I Been Pwned?‘. The studio, which is famous for developing the highly successful Witcher franchise, was breached in March 2016 when hackers targeted its online…
Info of 200,000 Indycar race fans exposed in misconfigured backup
Chris Vickery writes: The online security of over 200,000 Indycar racing fans was put in jeopardy recently. Earlier this month I discovered a large collection of publicly exposed MySQL database backup files at an IP resolving to ims-mysql.indycar.com. The majority of these backups appear to be merely operational, but what stands out are the Indycar…
MLB fines Cardinals $2 million for computer hack
Brian Feldt reports: Major League Baseball on Monday afternoon ordered the St. Louis Cardinals to pay $2 million and turn over two 2017 draft selections to the Houston Astros as a result of a former Cardinals employee hacking the Astros’ computer system. The league’s decision also permanently banned Chris Correa, who was fired by the Cardinals in July 2015…