Robin Levinson King reports: Canada’s privacy watchdog says it will investigate the security breach at Toronto-based Ashley Madison after hackers apparently exposed private information about millions of the adultery website’s users. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner “has commenced an investigation into the matter concerning (Ashley Madison owner) Avid Life Media,” spokesperson Valerie Lawton said…
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Ashley Madison search sites like Trustify are harvesting email addresses and spamming searched victims
Troy Hunt writes: To date, I’ve avoided commenting on the other Ashley Madison search services and have invested my efforts purely in keeping Have I been pwned? (HIBP) ticking along. I’ve seen them come and indeed I’ve seen some of them go too. I’ve seen many that enable you to get confirmation about the presence of an…
50,000 AutoZone customers’ data hacked, exposed (update1)
AutoZone, a leading American retailer of auto parts, has reportedly been hacked by @JM511. This afternoon, JM511 announced the hack of the AutoZonePro.com site on Twitter. The linked paste included 49,967 customers’ details: billing addresses (street and city), email addresses, hashed passwords, telephone numbers, customers’ cities, and dates of birth. Although the passwords were hashed, JM511 provided the password…
UK Islamist Hamza Tzortzis “found” in leaked Ashley Madison database
It could be very dirty (clever) politics to create Ashley Madison accounts for people you might want to discredit politically – particularly when the site doesn’t verify email addresses. And that’s what a UK Islamist preacher, Hamza Tzortzis, claimed happened to him. When he learned his name was in the leaked database, he took to his Facebook…
Leaked Ashley Madison emails reveals 2012 hack
Mikael Thalen reports: Leaked emails from Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman reveal that a disgruntled user of the online cheating service Ashley Madison hacked hundreds of the site’s user accounts in 2012. […] One such email from Biderman in October of 2012 details how one Ashley Madison user “hacked” multiple accounts and attempted to…
UK: Data breach by holiday firm Thomson exposes hundreds of passengers
BBC reports: A data protection breach by holiday company Thomson revealed the home addresses, telephone numbers and flight dates of nearly 500 customers. An email seen by the BBC shows the personal details of 458 people from across the UK were shared on 15 August. […] A statement from the company said: “We are aware…