Kelly Fiveash reports: Carphone Warehouse has taken three days to go public about a serious data breach affecting nearly 2.5 million customers – with the confession that up to 90,000 subscribers may have had their credit card info ransacked. The company said in a statement on Saturday afternoon that it had first discovered its systems…
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UK: Job recruiters network JobsatTEAM hacked
Another day, another SQLinjection attack by JM511 (@JM511 on Twitter). This time, it’s U.K. site, jobsatteam.com. TEAM describes themselves as the largest network of independent job recruiters. JM511 dumped the administrator’s table with 12 individuals’ email addresses, usernames, passwords, full names, and telephone numbers. There’s also a dump of 2,590 members’ names, usernames, passwords (some unencrypted),…
Wattpad users: change your Wattpad and Tumblr passwords
Wattpad‘s site claims More than 40 million people have joined Wattpad, making it the world’s largest community of readers and writers. People use Wattpad to connect with each other while they discover and share millions of free stories. Wattpad stories are available in more than 50 languages and can be read or written from any…
American Airlines, Sabre Said to Be Hit in Hacks Backed by China (UPDATED)
Update: American Airlines subsequently denied having been attacked. SCMagazine reports: “There is no indication or evidence of an attack or that any customer data has been compromised,” said American spokesman Casey Norton, adding that, “Because of a threat to a close partner that we work closely with on reservations we are looking closely at our…
UPDATE: Russia thought to be behind attack on Pentagon Joint Chief of Staff email system
Courtney Kube and Jim Miklaszewski report: U.S. officials tell NBC News that Russia launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system, which has been shut down and taken offline for nearly two weeks. According to the officials, the “sophisticated cyber intrusion” occurred sometime around July 25 and affected some 4,000 military…
ICANN admits to hack of website users’ accounts
Shaun Nichols reports: ICANN says its website’s user accounts have been compromised by hackers who gained access to their names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more. On Wednesday, the domain-name system overlord admitted its server security was breached within the past week: an “unauthorized person” obtained account records, which included harmless info such as site preferences, and…