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…
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(Now other) Advocates press federal regulators to investigate Experian data breach
Priya Anand reports: Consumer and data privacy advocates are asking federal regulators to investigate the breach at credit bureau Experian, which compromised the personal information of millions of T-Mobile customers. “We believe that it is incumbent on the regulatory agencies to fully investigate this breach, including whether other Experian databases have been breached,” they wrote in…
Maybe every e-commerce site should assume they were hacked last year
Customers may be singing, “You got mud on your face, you big disgrace” when they receive a breach notification from GlamGlow, the latest business to disclose that it had a breach more than one year ago that they’ve only recently discovered. The notification letter begins: We recently became aware that an unauthorized party accessed the glamglowmud.com website and acquired certain…
Uber checks connections between hacker and Lyft
Dan Levine and Joseph Menn of Reuters report that Uber is attempting to obtain evidence that might link the hack of its drivers’ database to its chief rival, Lyft. An IP address of particular interest “can be traced to the chief of technology” at Lyft, sources tell the reporters. The court papers draw no direct connection between…
Matthew Keys Convicted of Helping Anonymous Hack The Tribune Company
Kim Zetter reports: An ex-Reuters employee has been found guilty of aiding members of Anonymous so they could hack his former employer. Matthew Keys, who was tried in Sacramento, was an online social media editor for the Reuters news agency when he was indicted in 2013 for allegedly providing a username and password to members of Anonymous to…
Chinese Hackers Breached LoopPay
Nicole Perlroth and Mike Isaac report: Months before its technology became the centerpiece of Samsung’s new mobile payment system, LoopPay, a small Massachusetts subsidiary of the South Korean electronics giant, was the target of a sophisticated attack by a group of government-affiliated Chinese hackers. As early as March, the hackers — alternatively known as the…