The Denver Channel reports that Noodles & Company has been sued by financial institutions who allege that they suffered injury as a result of a databreach first reported in May – a breach they claim could have been avoided had Noodles & Company learned from all the hacks of other major retailers and deployed adequate security….
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FL: Accused hacker apologizes to Lee County elections official
There’s a follow-up to a case previously noted on this site. WINK News reports: Cyber expert and owner of Vanguard Cybersecurity, David Michael Levin, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge for hacking into the Lee County elections website Tuesday. Levin’s plea for a misdemeanor was a reduction to the felony charges he faced. He will…
UAE: Al Zahra Private Medical Centre hacked
The web site of Al Zahra Private Medical Centre in the United Arab Emirates was reportedly hacked last month by the individual calling himself “websites-hunter” (@websiteshunter on Twitter). The hack was announced on Twitter on August 31 and on Pastebin on the same day. The Al Zahra Private Medical Centre is part of the health services network of the Gulf Medical…
Russian internet giant Rambler.ru hacked, leaking 98 million accounts
Zack Whittaker reports on yet another 2012 hack where the data are first being leaked publicly: Russian internet portal and email provider Rambler.ru has become the latest victim in a growing list of historical hacks. Breach notification site LeakedSource.com, which obtained a copy of an internal customer database, said the attack dates back to February…
Nearly 800,000 Brazzers Porn Site Accounts Exposed in Forum Hack
Data from another 2012 breach involving a vBulletin forum compromise appear to have surfaced now. Joseph Cox reports: Nearly 800,000 accounts for popular porn site Brazzers have been exposed in a data breach. Although the data originated from the company’s separate forum, Brazzers users who never signed up to the forum may also find their details…
Hacker Selling 68 Million Stolen Dropbox User Accounts on Dark Web; BitcoinTalk forum data also for sale
I had seen the listing on TheRealDeal, but not having time to try to verify its authenticity, skipped it. Thankfully, Waqas of HackRead investigated and verified some of the data: On 31st August 2016, unknown hackers leaked 68 million Dropbox user accounts including login emails and encrypted passwords from a breach that took place in 2012. Initially,…