A group of defendants have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they knowingly provided scammers with hundreds of thousands of consumers’ sensitive personal information – including Social Security and bank account numbers. The proposed federal court orders prohibit John Ayers, LeapLab and Leads Company from selling or transferring sensitive personal information about consumers to third parties. The defendants will also…
Category: Business Sector
Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) denies breach (UPDATED)
Yesterday, I noted a report on Softpedia claiming that Anonymous had hacked and leaked data from Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited. It appears the company is denying that they’ve had any breach. Athuman Mtulya reports: However, TTCL Public Relations Manager Nicodemus Mushi told The Citizen yesterday that they had not traced any breach of their systems and had…
Quotemehappy? No, I’m furious: Insurance site loses customer details
Alexander J. Martin reports: Aviva-owned online-only insurance business Quotemehappy.com has informed customers that there has been a data breach at its website. Quotemehappy announced that it had “recently” lost a “small number” of customers’ details, comprising “vehicle registration, email address, mobile number, landline number and address.” An email sent around to customers today, which was…
Anonymous Leaks Details for 64,000 Tanzania Telecommunications Company Employees (UPDATE2)
Update1: TTCL is denying that they’ve had any breach. Update 2: Softpedia stands by its report that there was a breach, but has revised its estimate of the numbers. As one consequence, the headline for this post has been revised to delete the mention of 64,000. Original post: Catalin Cimpanu reports: Barely a day has passed since…
Jacksonville law firm victim of ransomware
Max Marbut reports: You might think the data stored on your computer at home or work is relatively safe from theft or even tampering. You would be wrong. No one knows that better than attorney Thomas Brown of The Brown Firm. […] The culprits left behind a digital message: Give them $2,500 and they would…
Misconfigured MongoDB installation left Microsoft careers site vulnerable to attack
Chris Vickery writes: An exposed database was serving potentially arbitrary HTML through the mobile version of Microsoft’s careers page (m.careersatmicrosoft.com). Punchkick Interactive is a mobile web development company. Microsoft relies on Punchkick to handle the database that powers m.careersatmicrosoft.com. The bad news is that, for at least the past few weeks, this backend database has…