Ben Ellery and Jaber Mohamed report: Criminals are selling the private details of thousands of British consumers online as a result of the TalkTalk hacking scandal – and dozens more major companies are affected, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Confidential information including names, addresses, mobile phone numbers and bank details of TalkTalk customers are…
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UK: TalkTalk update on breach lowers estimate of number impacted
From TalkTalk, yesterday: Since the cyber attack on our website on Wednesday 21st October 2015, we have been working to establish what happened and, importantly, understand the extent of any individual customer data stolen during this attack. In light of the potential scale of attack, our responsibility last week was to inform all customers as…
Third arrest in TalkTalk data breach
Levi Winchester and Nick Gutteridge report that a 20-year old man from Staffordshire has become the third person arrested in connection to the TalkTalk breach. It’s not clear from the reporting whether either or both of the two teens previously arrested provided information to the Metropolitan Police that led to this arrest. Read more on…
Nearly 2,000 Vodafone customers ‘open to fraud’ after data breach
From Belfast Telegraph: Nearly 2,000 Vodafone customers are “open to fraud” after hackers accessed their personal details, the company has revealed. The mobile phone giant said 1,827 accounts had been breached, potentially providing criminals with customers’ names, mobile numbers, bank sort codes and the last four digits of their bank accounts. Read more on Belfast…
Data, data everywhere…
Yesterday, and as previously noted on this site, 173,891 breached accounts from PHP Freaks forum were dumped. Last night, @Cyber_War_News tweeted that approximately 1 million accounts from the 000webhosting hack had shown up on the dark web. It’s a reasonable bet that the 12+million other accounts will also show up. This morning, @haveibeenpwned tweeted that 620,677 accounts…
PHP Freaks forum database hacked
If you don’t bother to read the TOS and policies before you sign up for a site, you may find that there is no way out. Today’s example from PHP Freaks Forum: It has come to our attention that someone managed to get their hands on a database dump of the phpfreaks members table used…