Nicole Henderson reports: EllisLab, the software development company behind the ExpressionEngine CMS, announced on Friday that hackers gained unauthorized access to its servers at the end of March and may have obtained customers’ personal information in the process. According to a post-mortem blog post, hackers logged into EllisLab.com with a stolen Super Admin password at 10:49…
Category: Business Sector
More Uber Accounts Hacked – or Old Stolen Data First Being Misused?
Motherboard reports: Back in March, Motherboard revealed that fully functioning Uber accounts were for sale on the dark web for as cheap as $1 each. At the time, it appeared that the victims of those hacks were based in the United Kingdom. Now, Uber customers from all over the United States have taken to Twitter to complain that their…
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. Statement
Sally Beauty has issued the following statement. Their name may seem familiar to you because this site reported on an earlier breach last year. Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. is currently investigating reports of unusual activity involving payment cards used at some of our U.S. Sally Beauty stores. Since learning of these reports, we have been working with…
Ca: More data dumped from Detour Gold
I had told Detour Gold to keep an eye out for future data dumps when I spoke with them weeks ago to notify them that they had been hacked, and I wasn’t surprised to receive an email last night from someone pointing me to a new data dump. The data dump includes personal information on employees as well…
A bit of hard luck hits Hard Rock Hotel & Casino customers
A statement from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, linked from their home page: The trust and loyalty of our customers is our highest priority, which is why, as a precautionary measure, we are writing to let you know of a security incident that may have affected your credit card information. This incident may have…
Harbortouch is Latest POS Vendor Breach
Brian Krebs reports: Last week, Allentown, Pa. based point-of-sale (POS) maker Harbortouch disclosed that a breach involving “a small number” of its restaurant and bar customers were impacted by malicious software that allowed thieves to siphon customer card data from affected merchants. KrebsOnSecurity has recently heard from a major U.S. card issuer that says the company is…