Add Peppermill Resort Spa & Casino to the list of hospitality entities that were hacked last year but didn’t learn of it until this year. According to their notification letter of October 5, the hack involved their front desk system and resulted in the compromise of customers’ payment card information, including security codes. The hack…
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Are Half of the Hacked Patreon Accounts Fake?
Brady Dale reports; t looks like hackers quietly siphoned data from Patreon, the site for financing creative people’s work via the crowd, for a very long time. That said, more than half the user emails found in the hack bear the markings that suggest they were likely fake accounts. Read more on Observer. Note that…
Someone Hacked Uniformed Services University and Leaked Their Credentials Online
Waqas reports: A hacker going with the online handle of Kuroi SH hacked and defaced several domains of the United States based Uniformed Services University and leaked 2014 login credentials online. Uniformed Services University (USU) is the country’s only Federal Health Sciences University whose primary mission is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home…
CO: Juvenile arrested in connection to threats made at Rangeview High School
Hsing Tseng reports: A juvenile male in connection to a threat made at Rangeview High School has been arrested Thursday, according to the Aurora Police. Extra security was in place Thursday at Rangeview High School after reports of a threat against a teacher at the school. The Aurora Police Department School Resource Officers for Rangeview…
Dow Jones Discloses Customer Data Breach
Stephen Perlberg reports: Dow Jones & Co. disclosed that hackers had gained unauthorized entry to its systems, accessing contact information for current and former subscribers in order to send fraudulent solicitations. The data breach potentially accessed payment card information for fewer than 3,500 individuals, said Dow Jones, a unit of News Corp and owner of The Wall…
Why an Internet activist refuses to take down Patreon breach data
Sean Sposito reports on why Thomas White, who posted the Patreon data dump on his site, TheCthulhu.com, refuses to take it down. Despite the legal risk, White said, the public has a right to know exactly what data has been exposed — and researchers should be able to safely examine it to find out how it happened. Could white…