Jeff John Roberts reports: A controversial cryptocurrency project known as Bancor—which last year raised $153 million to create a digital token exchange—hit another stumble: On Monday afternoon, the company announced hackers had raided one of its online wallets to the tune of $23.5 million. News of the robbery came hours after Bancor disclosed it had…
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User data exposed in Domain Factory hosting security breach
Charlie Osborne reports: German hosting provider Domain Factory has experienced a data breach which has exposed customer data. Last week, the company said [translated] an unknown threat actor posted claims on the Domain Factory forum which suggested they had managed to compromise the firm’s systems and access information. Following this statement, Domain Factory pulled its…
Timehop says hack impacted more than 21 million users
From Timehop, part of their security incident notice on their site: On July 4, 2018, Timehop experienced a network intrusion that led to a breach of some of your data. We learned of the breach while it was still in progress, and were able to interrupt it, but data was taken. While our investigation into…
Lake Oswego School District warns students about phishing email after employee account hacked
KOIN 6 in Oregon reports: The culprit had no problem drawing attention. At 2:36 p.m., a tweet came out from the Lake Oswego School district Twitter account. In all caps, the tweet signaled a change in the account. Read more on KOIN 6. This may be more than just a hack of the district’s Twitter…
WI: Manitowoc County data breach affected personal health, medical information
Alisa M. Shafer reports: Manitowoc County officials have released more information about a data breach of a Manitowoc County email account in January. The press release from June 22 states: “On or around January 14, 2018, an unauthorized party was able to gain access to a Manitowoc County email account most likely through what is called…
Former Brownsville Fire Chief Facing Security Breach Charges
KRGV reports: The former Brownsville fire chief is facing more charges. Carlos Elizondo was indicted by a grand jury in an 11-count case of computer security breach charges. He’s accused of logging into a computer network on 11 occasions to access the emergency reporting system portal for the Brownsville Fire Department without the city’s consent….