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…
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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…
Virgin Mobile privacy breach sees customers getting access to strangers’ voicemails
Michelle Starr reports: A privacy breach seems to be underway at Virgin Mobile. Customers attempting to access their voicemail messages are instead getting access to the voicemail messages of other people. When dialling the 212 number used by Virgin Mobile that allows access to your own voicemail box, Virgin Mobile customers are instead reporting that…
Thousands of Guests’ Data May Have Been Hacked at Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt Hotels
What, again? Reuters reports: A data breach at 20 U.S. hotels operated by HEI Hotels & Resorts for Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt and Intercontinental may have divulged payment card data from tens of thousands of food, drink and other transactions, HEI said on Sunday. The breach follows similar attacks at Hyatt Hotels and Starwood Hotels &…