Another child-oriented site has exposed information due to a misconfigured MongoDB installation. This time, it’s ABCya.com, according to the MacKeeper security research team. Here’s what they reported they found exposed: credentials and information of 11k+ archived customers (including IP addresses, email addresses, names, temporary access codes, hashed and salted passwords) credentials and information on 21k+ active…
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Australia: 13,000+ User Accounts Leaked From Fairfax Media Because…. SQLi
I knew if I waited a day, Lee Johnstone would analyze the data and make some sense of it for us. 🙂 RiskBasedSecurity reports: It’s become cliche for news articles about data breaches to begin with: “hardly a day goes by without a new headline announcing yet another data breach”. Today, RBS’ researchers discovered that…
Utah man accused of hacking United Airlines
Meredith Cunningham reports: New details have come to light regarding the 2012 incident where a hacker was able to steal travel vouchers from the United Airlines website, then turn around and sell them for a profit. Ammon Cunningham from Saratoga Springs, Utah, is believed to be the culprit. The case affidavit claims that Cunningham emailed…
House lifts block on Google-hosted apps, Yahoo Mail remains blacklisted
Dustin Volz reports: The U.S. House of Representatives’ information technology team this week reinstated access on its internet network to software applications hosted on a Google cloud service after the company addressed potential security fears, according to an email seen by Reuters. Yahoo Mail remains inaccessible, however, and has been blacklisted since the House Information…
Gatecoin CEO Reveals $2 Million Loss in Hacking Incident
Traderman reports: On Saturday, Gatecoin CEO Aurélien Menant, released a statement that details the nature of the hack and how the exchange managed to lose 15% of client’s digital currency deposits. Gatecoin has always kept 95% of all customer funds in multi-signature cold wallets, however, the hacker managed to alter Gatecoin systems in such a way…
117 Million LinkedIn Emails And Passwords up for sale (Updated)
Lorenzo Franceschai-Bicchierai reports: A hacker is trying to sell the account information, including emails and passwords, of 117 million LinkedIn users. The hacker, who goes by the name “Peace,” told Motherboard that the data was stolen during the LinkedIn breach of 2012. At the time, only around 6.5 million encrypted passwords were posted online, and LinkedIn never…