Joseph Cox reports: A hacker is advertising a cache of email addresses, poorly secured passwords, phone numbers, and other information from users of photo sharing and video streaming app ’17’, which is particularly popular in Asia. The data is being sold on The Real Deal, a dark web market that specialises in stolen information and computer exploits. The data…
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Protected: Accessing Movimiento Ciudadano’s database was as easy as 1, 2, 3
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AU: Gumtree Australia notifies users of breach
As if he doesn’t have enough breaches to report on, Lee J. (@Cyber_War_News on Twitter) just received a breach notification letter from Gumtree Australia, an online classified ads site. Lee shared it on Pastebin: Dear Lee, We are writing to let you know that some of your Gumtree account information was compromised in a security attack…
Toymaker’s website pushes ransomware that holds visitors’ files hostage
Infecting site visitors with malware cannot be good for business. Their PR department must be going nuts over this one…. Dan Goodin reports: The website belonging to Maisto International, a popular maker of remote-controlled toy vehicles, has been caught pushing ransomware that holds visitors’ files hostage until they pay a hefty fee. Malicious files provided by…
Goldcorp claims that there was an extortion attempt
Following up on my report on Daily Dot about Goldcorp being hacked and a lot of data being dumped, Bloomberg News now reports that Goldcorp’s CEO claims there was an extortion attempt. Obviously, I will be trying to follow up on this new development.
U.S. Steel Accuses China of Hacking
John W. Miller reports: U.S. Steel Corp. is alleging that Chinese government hackers stole proprietary methods for making lightweight steel on behalf of Chinese steel producers seeking to supply a bigger share of the U.S. auto-making market. Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel, in a complaint filed on Tuesday with the International Trade Commission, said a computer belonging to a Pittsburgh researcher was hacked…