Catalin Cimpanu writes: A hacker known as Databoss has stolen the databases of BitTorrent clients qTorrent and Deluge, and is offering access to all the data via his website. Deluge and qTorrent are desktop clients for the BitTorrent protocol, just like uTorrent and Vuze. According to a post on the Reality Forum, a hacker that goes…
Category: Business Sector
[Hello Kitty Update] Security Advisory: Corrected a vulnerability involving personal information of SanrioTown.com members
As noted in an update to my first post, Salted Hash learned that this incident potentially impacted over 186,000 children under the age of 18. Here is Sanrio’s statement from their SanrioTown web site: Sanrio Digital notifies that personal information belonging to members of the consumer website SanrioTown.com was publicly accessible owing to a security vulnerability….
Misconfigured database may have exposed 1.5 million individuals’ PHI: researcher (UPDATE2)
Alliance Health is a technology company that owns and operates a group of condition-specific social communities with over 1.5 million registered members. Their 29 communities include conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, Crohn’s, asthma, allergies, and HIV, but also includes mental health conditions such as ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and anxiety disorders. To join a community, the member is…
Database leak exposes Uncle Maddio’s employees’ and customers’ info – or did it? (UPDATED)
Update: On December 23, DataBreaches.net received a statement from Uncle Maddio’s public relations firm saying this is not their database: “Thank you for contacting Uncle Maddio’s Pizza. After investigating the information you provided from the third party and reviewing our information security standards and systems, we believe you may have us confused with another company. The information…
Walmart Leaked Data Appearing Online?
The folks at SLC Security note: With the holiday season right around the corner we started noting post on forums with a list of usernames and passwords. We have begun notifying the end users of the leaked information to see if we can verify if they re legitimate. Of the 5 people that responded so…
Oracle Agrees to Settle FTC Charges It Deceived Consumers About Java Software Updates
From the FTC: Oracle has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers about the security provided by updates to its Java Platform, Standard Edition software (Java SE), which is installed on more than 850 million personal computers. Under the terms of a proposed consent order, Oracle will be required to give consumers the…