AFP reports: Unknown attackers have hacked into Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova’s World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) records, the watchdog announced Saturday (Aug 13). The runner, who was excluded from the Rio Olympics and lives in hiding in the United States, has been a key source of information on accusations that the Russian government organised doping on…
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UK: Sage suffers data breach that may impact employees of as many as 300 companies
Lauren Fedor reports: Personal details and bank account information for employees of as many as 300 UK companies may have been compromised as part of a data breach at Sage, the UK software group. […] On Friday, the Newcastle-based group notified around 200 of its current UK business customers that their information — including employee bank…
Hacker Publishes List Of Cell Phone Numbers, Private E-Mails For Most House Democrats
The Smoking Gun reports: After disappearing for a couple of weeks, the hacker “Guccifer 2.0” returned late this afternoon to provide a new headache for Democrats. In a post to his WordPress blog, the vandal–who previously provided nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee e-mails to Wikileaks–uploaded an Excel file that includes the cell phone numbers and private e-mail…
LinkedIn suffers huge bot attack that steals members’ personal data
Ethan Baron reports: Data thieves used a massive “botnet” against professional networking site LinkedIn and stole member’s personal information, a new lawsuit reveals. The Mountain View firm filed the federal suit this week in an attempt to uncover the perpetrators. “LinkedIn members populate their profiles with a wide range of information concerning their professional lives, including summaries (narratives…
NL: Personal data of 3700 Ede residents leaked through municipal site
Janene Pieters reports: The personal information of about 3,700 Ede residents were accessed by unauthorized persons due to a security vulnerability on the municipal site, a spokesperson for the municipality confirmed to NU.nl. The unauthorized persons had access to a database that is linked to a contact form. Residents could submit a question or asked to be…
Analysis of World Check data leak by Risk Based Security: Hackers & Collectives
From RBS: In early July, it was revealed that a Thomson Reuters service known as World-Check had licensed information to a client that subsequently failed to secure the database. The leak, discovered by Chris Vickery, affected over 2.2 million persons identified as “heightened-risk individuals” that had been included in the World-Check database between 3/17/2000 and 9/17/2014. Shortly after the discovery, Risk…