Joseph Cox reports: Specialty dating site “Muslim Match” has been hacked. Nearly 150,000 user credentials and profiles have been posted online, as well as over half a million private messages between users. Security researcher Troy Hunt has added the data to his breach notification site “Have I Been Pwned?” for the site’s users to check…
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CUNA Joins Wendy’s Breach Suit
Roy Urrico reports: The Michigan Credit Union League, its members and CUNA are advocating for stronger merchants and card network accountability after a Wendy’s restaurants breach forced several credit unions to cover associated costs. According to CUNA, industry sources estimated the fraudulent charges have been even larger than in other recent data breaches such as…
Noodles and Company confirms payment card breach
Brian Krebs first broke the story in May that casual food chain Noodles and Company had likely had a payment card breach. Now the company has confirmed it: Press Release Noodles & Company Provides Notice of Data Security Incident Broomfield, Colorado, June 28, 2016 – Noodles & Company (NASDAQ: NDLS) today announced that a recent data security…
Deutsche Telekom finds passwords for sale on dark web, but denies hack
Zack Whittaker reports: German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom has warned its customers that it found account passwords for sale on the dark web. In a German posting on its website, the company said that a sample of 90 records it received showed that “at least part” of the detail are “real and current.” The sample is part…
Hard Rock Las Vegas Reports Card Data Breach
Dow Jones Business News reports: The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas said Monday that customer payment-card data was accessed after malware was placed on the resort’s payment-card system, becoming the latest hotel to report such a breach. The company said the card-scraping malware identified data including cardholder name, card number, expiration date…
Religious hacker defaces scores of escort websites in the name of Allah
It looks like @ElSurveillance has been busy again since this site last heard from in December. Catalin Cimpanu has the story on Softpedia, and Jason Murdock picks it up on IBT.