AP reports: A security lapse earlier this summer has jeopardized the Social Security information of nearly 700 users of Vermont’s online health insurance marketplace. Vermont Public Radio reports officials learned of the security breach when one Vermont Health Connect customer found her name and Social Security number on an online document while conducting an internet search….
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Noble House Hotels & Resorts notifies guests of payment card breaches at Teton Mountain Lodge & Spa and Hotel Terra
More data security woes are being reported by Noble House Hotels & Resorts. The chain, who reported multiple breaches in 2015 and in September of this year, has found additional properties had their payment systems compromised. Noble House Hotels & Resorts was alerted to potential suspicious activity on the payment card system for Teton Mountain…
Evony Gaming Company Website Hacked; 33M Gamer Accounts Stolen
Waqas writes: In June 2016, the official website of Evony gaming company suffered a massive data breach in which 33,407,472 of its registered user accounts were stolen. Things couldn’t go worse when in August 2016, the gaming site suffered another data breach on its forum in which 938,000 of its registered accounts were stolen. Read more on HackRead.
AU: Event Organizer Suffers Data Breach After Hacker Steals Mailing Lists
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Pont3, an Australian event organizer, revealed yesterday that an unauthorized party had gained access to its mailing list account and downloaded data about individuals that subscribed to various events organized by the company in the past. The intrusion took place last Thursday, on October 6, and Pont3 said the attacker gained access…
Thai regulator clears AIS in data leak
Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) cleared the country’s largest mobile operator AIS in a data privacy leak after determining it wasn’t involved in the release of subscriber call and location records. NBTC secretary-general Takorn Tantaisith said the panel found that an AIS employee was responsible for taking the customer data, the Bangkok Post said. Read…
Almost 6,000 online shops hit by hackers
BBC reports: Almost 6,000 web shops are unknowingly harbouring malicious code that is stealing the credit card details of customers, suggests research. The code has been injected into the sites by cyberthieves, said Dutch developer Willem De Groot. He found the 5,925 compromised sites by scanning for the specific signature of the data-stealing code in website…