In addition to dealing with what appears to be an insider breach that snagged the information of more than 200 Sage corporate customers, Sage also got a phone call from Chris Vickery this week that kept them even busier. According to Chris, he discovered about 20 misconfigured MongoDB installations using Sage’s X3 software. Originally thinking…
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UK: Sage Group employee arrested on fraud charge
Ashley Armstrong reports: The City of London police arrested a Sage Group employee at Heathrow airport on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, just two days after the FTSE 100 company revealed a data breach. The 32-year-old female’s arrest follows Sage’s announcement earlier this week that an internal login had been used to gain unauthorised access…
P.E.I. MLA wants answers about privacy breach at care home
Ryan Ross reports: Health P.E.I. started an investigation into allegations of privacy breaches at the Margaret Stewart Ellis Home in O’Leary. Photos were posted on social media and the CBC reported last month the pictures included a headshot of one of the facility’s deceased residents. In addition, an employee had, over a period of…
SocialBlade hacked – LeakedSource
From LeakedSource.com: Socialblade.com was hacked in August of 2016. Their main website contains 273,086 users while their forums contains only 13,009. Each record contains an email address, ip address, username, user identifier, and one password. Additionally, data we haven’t imported includes authentication tokens for YouTube, Instagram and Twitter for thousands of users as well as…
In: Three booked for startup firm data theft
TNN reports: The Chatushrungi police have booked three office-bearers of a software company here for allegedly stealing data and vital information of a start-up IT company. The owner of the company, Abhay Ramchandra Dani (43) of Aundh, had lodged a complaint last week. In his complaint, Dani said he was the managing director of Technovate Consultancy Services, which provides online health…
Seleznev’s laptop held 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers, says prosecutor
Martha Bellisle of AP reports: When U.S. federal agents arrested a Russian man in the Maldives in 2014, they found 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers on his laptop computer, a federal prosecutor told the jury during opening statements. That was “1.7 million people who had eaten at the wrong restaurant and their personal information…