CTV reports: Accounts of more than 1,000 Vancity customers have been compromised after their debit card numbers were stolen while making purchases in Metro Vancouver. “We found out this morning from Central One, our card provider, that two Vancouver-area retailers have had their card machines compromised as a result of a skimming operation,” Vancity spokesperson…
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Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Company reports lost flash drive
I really miss the days when NYS posted all the breach notifications it received online, but they still occasionally post breach alerts. This week, the NYS Department of Financial Services posted an alert concerning Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Company. In looking into it, I discovered that LocalSYR.com had reported the breach on April 21st: Columbian Mutual…
Research group says UC Browser, owned by Alibaba, found to leak data
John Ruwitch reports: A popular mobile web browser from a company that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd paid more than $1 billion for last year leaks sensitive user data and is a privacy risk, a Canadian technology research group said on Thursday. Citizen Lab said Chinese and English-language versions of UC Browser, developed by UCWeb Inc.,…
Hundreds of people who want to hire hackers just got outed
Kashmir Hill reports: In February, an Alabama woman named Terri went on a hacker-for-hire website called Hacker’s List, and posted a job she needed done. “I need to get information off an iPhone6, mainly texts (current and deleted if possible and the call log),” she wrote. “Or get into their email account … Thanks so…
MasterCard, Target data breach settlement falls apart
Joseph Ax reports that the proposed $19 million settlement between MasterCard and Target over the retailer’s 2013 data breach has fallen through because not enough banks accepted the deal. The settlement was contingent on banks that issued at least 90 percent of the MasterCard accounts signing on to the agreement by May 20. Any bank…
Feds and cops outed as hacker dump exposes ties to adult-dating site
And so it begins… RT reports: The men behind the screen names “Eaglesfan_6969” and “Verywilling2011” are looking for sex, and they’re doing it from government-provided email accounts, according to data pilfered from a hacked dating website. A trove of personal information pertaining to paid account holders of AdultFriendFinder, a website that touts itself as letting…