Karen Herzog reports: A database within the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School that contained Social Security numbers and name pairs corresponding with 1,213 Law School applicants for 2005-’06 was hacked last month, the university announced Tuesday. The university became aware Nov. 3 that the database had been breached, and sent notices to those affected Dec. 6, offering…
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Experian denies that database up for sale on dark web is their data
It was only last week that Experian released a white paper on what it sees as data breach risks for 2017. Perhaps ironically, then, it was only days later when a dark web vendor claimed to have Experian’s database for sale. HackRead reported on “DoubleFlag’s” listing: The hacker claims he has access to the Experian database which contains…
DailyMotion Allegedly Hacked, 85 Million User Accounts Stolen
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An unknown hacker has supposedly breached video sharing platform DailyMotion and stolen details for 87.6 million accounts, belonging to approximately 85 million users, according to data breach index website LeakedSource. LeakedSource, who provides a searchable database of user details leaked in various hacks, has added the DailyMotion stolen data to its search…
Sadly, SQL injection attacks never go out of style – or effectiveness
“Kapustkiy,” a self-described teenager who has been using SQL injection attacks on a number of government sites, today dumped some data from the National Assembly of Ecuador. There were 655 email addresses and passwords in his public paste, although the list contained some duplicates. As he has done in the past, and as he informed this site…
Bank of Russia disclaims reports hackers steal 2B rubles from its correspondent accounts
The Bank of Russia (central bank) has disclaimed the reports hackers stole two billion rubles ($30.8 million) from its correspondent accounts. “The reports about stolen two billion rubles from the Bank of Russia’s correspondent accounts in a hacker attack are not true to life,” the regulator’s press service told TASS on Saturday. “The review of…
Breach at Shiseido unit likely led to data leak on 420,000 shoppers
The Mainichi reports: Japanese cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. said Friday that the online store run by subsidiary IPSA Co. has suffered illegal access and that personal information on about 420,000 customers may have leaked as a result. The data included the customers’ names and addresses, but credit card information on up to around 56,000 of…