Andrew Blake reports: A Republican Party website that sells bumper stickers and T-shirts advertising presidential candidate Donald Trump was compromised earlier this year by hackers who spent several months silently stealing credit card details and other personal information from purchasers, according to a Dutch security researcher. The digital storefront used by the National Republican Senatorial…
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Yahoo Loses Search Engine Partner, First Since Data Breach Reveal
Laurie Sullivan reports: A little-known search engine that focuses on user privacy has canceled its partnership with Yahoo. StartPage made the announcement Monday. “We can no longer have confidence in them,” according to StartPage CEO Robert Beens. He predicts that while his company is the first to part ways with Yahoo, others will likely follow….
Rainbow Children’s Clinic notifies 33,368 patients of ransomware attack
On October 4, Rainbow Children’s Clinic in Texas notified HHS of an incident affecting 33, 368 patients. Here is their notice from their web site, describing a ransomware incident: On August 3, 2016, Rainbow Children’s Clinic was the victim of a hacker who accessed its computer system and then launched a ransom ware attack that…
NullCrew hacker had FBI’s attention by the time he was 17
Jon Seidel reports: Nine years ago, Timothy French began his hacking career, the feds say. By 2011, he had the FBI’s attention. Today, he is 22 years old. Now federal prosecutors want to send the NullCrew hacker to prison for as many as seven years after he helped expose 12,000 Bell Canada customer usernames and…
Evony Gaming Company Website Hacked; 33M Gamer Accounts Stolen
Waqas writes: In June 2016, the official website of Evony gaming company suffered a massive data breach in which 33,407,472 of its registered user accounts were stolen. Things couldn’t go worse when in August 2016, the gaming site suffered another data breach on its forum in which 938,000 of its registered accounts were stolen. Read more on HackRead.
thedarkoverlord dumps data from Peachtree Orthopedics after failed extortion attempts
Just another day on the internet, where hackers are hacking and leakers are leaking and thedarkoverlord is dumping PHI data from american based companies yet again. The associated with this partial leak of data is not anything new, databreaches.net had reported on this a back in august and now thedarkoverlord has partially come public with…