Kieren McCarthy reports: GitHub has been ordered to hand over records on some of its users to taxi-booking app Uber after unsuccessfully challenging a subpoena. Last month, Uber announced its driver database had been hacked in May 2014, but it had only noticed in September of that year. Uber discovered that a supposedly secret database…
Category: Business Sector
WebSitePipeline notifying clients of breach
BetterBee has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving some customers’ payment card information. BetterBee says they were contacted by their ecommerce host, WebSite Pipeline (WSP) that hackers had successfully attacked one of their main computers and gained access to some clients’ passwords. Using those passwords, the hackers then uploaded malware that…
Documents with Social Security numbers found in south St. Louis dumpster
Dan Greenwald reports: A south St. Louis resident was in alley picking up trash when he discovered a dumpster overflowing with documents containing personal information. […] All of the files were marked with Doran Reality, a company in south St. Louis County that Forbes did business with nearly 20 minutes (sic) ago. Read more on KMOV….
Romanian National Extradited To New Jersey To Face Charges In Computer Hacking Scheme
A Romanian citizen made his initial court appearance today following his extradition to face charges that he orchestrated an international hacking scheme targeting retailers, security companies, medical offices and individuals in the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Mircea-Ilie Ispasoiu, 29, of Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania, is charged by federal indictment with two counts…
Twitch Security Breach Reported, Password Change Required
From Twitch From Twitch’s blog today: Important Notice About Your Twitch Account We are writing to let you know that there may have been unauthorized access to some Twitch user account information. For your protection, we have expired passwords and stream keys and have disconnected accounts from Twitter and YouTube. As a result, you will…
Hilton Honors Flaw Exposed All Accounts
Brian Krebs reports: Hospitality giant Hilton Hotels & Resorts recently started offering Hilton HHonors Awards members 1,000 free awards points to those who agreed to change their passwords for the online service prior to April 1, 2015, when the company said the change would become mandatory. Ironically, that same campaign led to the discovery of a simple yet powerful flaw…