SuperValu has revised its assessment of the number of customers affected by a recent breach involving its vendor Loyaltybuild. It now reports that 62,500 customers may have been affected. The estimate for Axa Insurance customers now affected has also been increased to 8,000. The number is now up to 500,000 across Europe, as other Loyaltybuild…
Category: Hack
Transcript of Oral Argument in FTC v. Wyndham
Cross-posted from the mother ship, PogoWasRight.org: I splurged and purchased a copy of the transcript of Thursday’s oral argument in FTC v. Wyndham . You can download it here (PDF, 561kB, 186 pp.). Consider it an early holiday gift from PogoWasRight.org to you. I look forward to reading everyone’s reactions after we’ve all had time to read it. I…
Tool to determine if your email address was in the Adobe data dump
After the Adobe hack was disclosed, I received some emails from concerned consumers asking if there was some way they could check to find out if their details were involved. LastPass has set up a page where you can input your email address and LastPass checks the database that was dumped online to determine if…
Predictable…
Following up on this, is there anyone who really didn’t see this one coming?
Follow-up: NYPD Detective Pleads Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to Computer Hacking
An update to a hacking case involving an NYPD detective that was previously noted on this blog (here). Edwin Vargas, a detective with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), pled guilty to computer hacking crimes. Specifically, Vargas paid others to hack into e-mail accounts, including e-mail accounts belonging to other NYPD officers and employees, and…
Australian Bitcoin bank hacked: $1m+ stolen
Ben Grubb reports: A four-month-old Australian Bitcoin bank holding more than $1 million has been hacked, leaving thousands of customers in the lurch including a man who claims he was holding the virtual currency to buy a house with his girlfriend. The alleged hacking happened on both October 23 and 26, with the service’s operator,…