Joseph Cox reports: A notorious cybercriminal is advertising 200 million of alleged Yahoo user credentials on the dark web, and the company has said it is “aware” of the hacker’s claims, but has not confirmed nor denied the legitimacy of the data. On Monday, the hacker known as Peace, who has previously sold dumps of Myspaceand LinkedIn,…
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Banks on the defense following hack of 410,000 Vietnam Airlines VIP member accounts
Tuoi Tre News reports: Two Vietnamese commercial banks have taken measures to protect customers who have used their cards in transactions with Vietnam Airlines, in the wake of a breach concerning more than 400,000 membership credentials of the national flag carrier. An alleged group of Chinese hackers compromised the Vietnam Airlines system on Friday, stealing information from…
NCSU warns 38,000 students of computer breach
Richard Stradling reports: N.C. State University says it has notified 38,000 current and former students that some of their personal information may have been accessed by someone who hacked into the university’s computer system. NCSU officials say someone accessed a university email account using a “sophisticated phishing scam” and got access to a file from…
Clinton campaign says data program accessed in cyber-attack on Democrats
Sam Thielman and Lauren Gambino report: A data program used by the campaign of the Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, was “accessed” as a part of hack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that intelligence officials believe was carried out by Russia’s intelligence services, Clinton’s campaign said on Friday. […] Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said…
Prosthetic & Orthotic Care confirms hack by TheDarkOverlord
Another one of TheDarkOverlord’s targets has issued a statement about the hack and theft of their patient information. DataBreaches.net had identified this entity and first reported on the hack on July 9. Somewhat disturbingly, and as we have seen in other cases with the same parameters, Prosthetic & Orthotic Care (P&O Care) does not appear to…
MS: Jefferson Medical Associates notifies patients of new and old breaches
Quentis Jones reports that Jefferson Medical Associates has issued a warning to a small group of their patients after a recent data breach of their systems. According to the release, on June 1 an unauthorized individual not affiliated with JMA accessed a database containing a limited history of prescriptions and other information for a small…