Catalin Cimpanu reports: CoinWallet, an online wallet service for Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies, announced over the weekend plans to shut down the service by May 1, 2016, following a data breach incident that occurred on April 6, 2016. The CoinWallet team said it identified the point of attack, blaming a recent service upgrade that added a new…
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Kylie Jenner Lip Kit Website Glitch Personal Customer Info Exposed
TMZ reports: Kylie Jenner’s cosmetics site has a shaky foundation, because it’s been inadvertently exposing very personal customer information. Here’s the problem. When someone tried to log into the site, it would send them to an existing customer’s account, revealing names, email addresses, personal addresses, order history, etc. Every time a customer refreshed the site,…
Anonymous Hack Italian Job Portals, Leak Trove of Data
Waqas reports that Anonymous Italy – LulzSec ITA has hacked into the websites of Italian job portals and employment agencies leaking personal data of hundreds and thousands of employees and business owners for operation OpNessunDorma to protest against the new labour laws in the country. Hackread, who claims they verified that the data were a new leak, report: The data includes full names, emails,…
Whiting-Turner notifies employees of potential breach at vendor
A Whiting-Turner vendor seems to have had a breach, although the nature of the breach or numbers affected are not clear. From WT’s notification template: Whiting-Turner is writing to inform you of a recent event that may affect the security of your child’s personal information. We are providing this notice to provide you, the parent/guardian, with…
UK: Former LV= employee tried to pay ex-colleague for crash claims information
A former LV= employee offered an ex-colleague £3,000 a month to send him the details of customers involved in road accidents. David Lewis, of Durlston Road in Swanage, used messaging service Whatsapp to contact Jacqueline Carter after he left the Poole-based business in 2014. However, Ms Carter warned Lewis that she wasn’t a “******* idiot” after he asked…
Oklahoma City Man Faces 10 Years in Federal Prison After Admitting He Transmitted Program or Code to a Protected Computer
Benjamin Earnest Nichols, 37, of Oklahoma City, appeared Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan and pleaded guilty to an Information charging one count of knowingly causing the transmission of a program or code to a protected computer, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. Nichols, who is on bond, faces…