From LeakedSource.com: Socialblade.com was hacked in August of 2016. Their main website contains 273,086 users while their forums contains only 13,009. Each record contains an email address, ip address, username, user identifier, and one password. Additionally, data we haven’t imported includes authentication tokens for YouTube, Instagram and Twitter for thousands of users as well as…
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Christians Against Poverty pleads for forgiveness over data breach
John Leyden reports: UK debt relief charity Christians Against Poverty has begun writing to supporters following a data breach that exposed personal details – including phone and bank account numbers, and banking sort codes. Unidentified hackers broke into the charity’s systems in late July. The intrusion was only detected a week later, as an alert by Christians…
Seleznev’s laptop held 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers, says prosecutor
Martha Bellisle of AP reports: When U.S. federal agents arrested a Russian man in the Maldives in 2014, they found 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers on his laptop computer, a federal prosecutor told the jury during opening statements. That was “1.7 million people who had eaten at the wrong restaurant and their personal information…
Hackers Claim to Auction Data They Stole From NSA-Linked Spies
Andy Greenberg reports: The NSA’S elite teams of hackers have for years made it their mission to silently compromise computer systems around the globe. Now one group of anonymous hackers claims to have executed a counter-hack with none of the same discretion: They’ve brazenly announced the theft of a collection of files they say belonged to…
Athens Orthopedic Clinic incident response leaves patients in the dark and out of pocket for protection
On June 26, after learning that databases with patients’ protected health information had been put up for sale on the dark web, DataBreaches.net began investigating and trying to alert the victim entities so that they could take immediate steps to try to mitigate harm to patients. By that evening, I had sent an email to Athens Orthopedic…
Quest Records LLC breach linked to TheDarkOverlord hacks; more entities investigate if they’ve been hacked
At the end of June, DeepDotWeb broke the story that hackers calling themselves TheDarkOverlord (TDO) had put three databases with patient information up for sale on the dark net. Although the owners of the databases were not listed, DataBreaches.net was able to identify two of the three entities as the Athens Orthopedic Clinic (AOC) in Atlanta and Midwest Orthopedic Pain and Spine (MOPS) in Farmington, Missouri. Both entities…