NY Announces $100K Settlement With E-Retailer After Data Breach Exposes Over 25K Credit Card Numbers NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a settlement with Provision Supply, LLC, d/b/a EZcontactsUSA.com, involving a data breach resulting in the potential exposure of over 25,000 credit card numbers and other cardholder data. EZcontactsUSA.com has agreed to…
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TX: Thousands of papers containing personal information tossed in city recycling bin
Thousands of pages filled with personal information were found in an open top recycling dumpster. The City of Midland says the lids are often left open making it possible for papers to be blown out. They are warning residents to watch what they toss away. […] The company who owned the documents, Tipperary Corporations, is…
Pokemon GO DDoS Attacks Postponed as PoodleCorp Botnet Suffers Security Breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The hacking crew that promised to launch DDoS attacks on the Pokemon GO servers on August 1 suffered a minor setback yesterday after someone hacked their site, dumped the database, and shared the data with data breach index service LeakedSource. The hacking crew’s name is PoodleCorp, a relatively new unit on the cyber-crime scene,…
Bitfinex Suspends Operations after Security Breach
Gautham N reports: One of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges has suspended operations following a security incident which led to the loss of Bitcoin held on the exchange. The breach in the platform’s security was discovered earlier today, after which Bitfinex put all trading activities on hold. According to the statement published by Bitfinex, the breach has affected…
Iranian ISP ‘Daba’ Hacked by Israeli Hacker; Login Data Leaked
Waqas reports: An Israeli hacker going by the handle of Zurael_sTz has hacked the official website of Iranian Internet services provider Daba and leaked login credentials of thousands of registered users online earlier today. Zurael_sTz who has been hacking Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian sites in recent past took his latest breach to Twitter and shared 3 files containing leaked data…
Yahoo ‘Aware’ Hacker Is Advertising 200 Million Supposed Accounts on Dark Web
Joseph Cox reports: A notorious cybercriminal is advertising 200 million of alleged Yahoo user credentials on the dark web, and the company has said it is “aware” of the hacker’s claims, but has not confirmed nor denied the legitimacy of the data. On Monday, the hacker known as Peace, who has previously sold dumps of Myspaceand LinkedIn,…