Joseph Cox reports: Active Uber accounts are for sale on a dark web marketplace for as little as $1 each, Motherboard has learned. One seller claims he has “thousands” of user logins for sale. A username and password is all you need to access a user’s trip history, which may include personal details such as…
Category: Hack
Slack hacked (updated)
Eugene Kim reports: Slack, the business communication app that is now reported to be worth over $2 billion, has experienced hacker attacks on its central user database, resulting in a possible breach of user data, Slack wrote in a blog post Friday. “We were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to a Slack database storing…
Oregon agency hacked; governor calls for study, changes
AP reports: Oregon officials said Thursday that they plan to restructure information technology functions after software found an external third-party had gained access to a state network. Gov. Kate Brown said in a statement that someone gained access to so-called metadata last week at the Department of Administrative Services, which handles technology for much of…
AU: Court recording biz with clients EVERYWHERE has forums breached
Darren Pauli reports: Australian court transcription company “For The Record” – which bills itself as “The No.1 digital evidence recording platform in the world” and says its products are “used in courtrooms throughout North America, Europe and Asia” – has had its forum hacked. The firm is used by the likes of the Victorian and…
MI: Potential data breach at unnamed merchant
Upper Michigan’s Source reports: Some Peninsula Federal Credit Union members had their debit cards cancelled as a precaution today. According to bank officials, the suspected data breach was at a local merchant. Read more on uppermichiganssource.com. Okay, not much there, I grant you, but it was only because I looked at that story that I…
GitHub ordered to hand over access logs to Uber
Kieren McCarthy reports: GitHub has been ordered to hand over records on some of its users to taxi-booking app Uber after unsuccessfully challenging a subpoena. Last month, Uber announced its driver database had been hacked in May 2014, but it had only noticed in September of that year. Uber discovered that a supposedly secret database…