NewsHub reports: The Hunting & Fishing New Zealand website has been hacked, with the company urging recent customers to check their bank transactions for suspicious activity. Visitors to the site now see a statement from the outdoor recreation company, saying it’s taken down its website “until further notice”. Read more on NewsHub.
Category: Hack
‘Warframe’ Hacked, Details on 775,000 Players Traded
Joseph Cox reports: User details for online, free-to-play game ‘Warframe’ are being traded in the digital underground. The nearly 800,000 records include email addresses, usernames, and dates for when the account was created and last logged into. Warframe is available on PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One, and is consistently in the top 20 played games on Steam. Troy Hunt,…
Illinois online voter registration portal hacked, information compromised
The state board of elections is reviewing just to what extent a hacker breached its online voter registration system. Illinois State Board of Elections General Counsel Ken Menzel said something flagged a breach in the online voter registration portal on July 12. He said the compromised information could be wide-ranging. “It would be a name…
WikiLeaks misstep: leaks thousands of DNC emails, some containing personal information
D.B. Hebbard reports: If WikiLeaks wanted to cause itself irreparable damage, it could not have done worse than to publish a huge dump of emails, some of which contain personal information such as passport or social security numbers, or credit card information. The organization, which usually gets support from the tech and liberal media, is…
Wikileaks posts nearly 20,000 hacked DNC emails online
Andrea Peterson reports: Wikileaks posted a massive trove of internal Democratic National Committee emails online Friday, in what the organization dubbed the first of a new “Hillary Leaks” series. The cache includes nearly 20,000 emails and over 8,000 file attachments from the inboxes of seven key staffers at the political party, including communications director Luis…
Laser & Dermatologic Surgery Center notifies 31,000 of possible PHI compromise
Laser & Dermatologic Surgery Center in Missouri notified HHS last month about an incident affecting 31,000 patients, but the submission was not added to the breach tool until this month, and no details had been readily available online until now. I recently spoke with their practice manager, who provided me with a copy of their notice…