Back in January, United Airlines suspended some Mileage Plus members’ accounts for what they claimed was a breach involving a third party that enabled an attacker to use login credentials to access members’ accounts. Now they may have another problem affecting their Mileage Plus program, it seems. Yosi Dahan of Turrisio writes: During our recent…
Category: Exposure
Privacy Commissioner investigates Ashley Madison data breach, Company offers reward for information
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…
CT: Backus Hospital sends 360 letters to patients regarding possible data breach
John Penney reports: A Norwich man received a letter from The William W. Backus Hospital on Saturday informing him of a possible data breach involving several pieces of sensitive patient information, one of more than 300 patients the hospital sent similar notifications to this month. Kenneth Keely Jr., of Williams St. provided the The Bulletin with…
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…
Ashley Madison Hackers Speak Out: ‘Nobody Was Watching’
Joseph Cox of Motherboard got the exclusive interview of the week – with Impact Team, the hackers behind the AshleyMadison.com hack. Here’s a snippet of the email interview: MOTHERBOARD: How did you hack Avid Life Media? Was it hard? The Impact Team: We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack, then got in and found nothing…