Swati Khandelwal reports: Have you heard of Omegle? The popular, free online anonymous chat service that allows you to chat with random strangers, without any registration. The service randomly pairs you in one-on-one chat window where you can chat anonymously over text or webcam. But, are your chats actually Anonymous? No, all your chats are recorded…
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Malware Infected All Eddie Bauer Stores in U.S., Canada
Brian Krebs reports: Clothing store chain Eddie Bauer said today it has detected and removed malicious software from point-of-sale systems at all of its 350+ stores in North America, and that credit and debit cards used at those stores during the first six months of 2016 may have been compromised in the breach. The acknowledgement comes nearly…
Data for 6 Million Minecraft Gamers Stolen from Leet.cc Servers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Data breach index service LeakedSource has told Softpedia that it has received the full database and source of Leet.cc, a service for creating and running Minecraft Pocket Edition servers. According to a LeakedSource spokesperson, the database includes records for 6,084,276 users that have signed up with Leet.cc. For each user, the data included a username,…
UK: Sage really has had it hands full this week…
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…
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…