Back in July, this site reported that a number of gift shops at zoos were impacted by a breach involving their point of sale systems. Service Systems Associates (SSA) issued a statement at the time. I’m not sure why more impacted entities are first disclosing now, but WBAP reports: You’ll want to check your bank statements if you went…
Category: Miscellaneous
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…
Cryptome grudgingly admits to leak of users’ ancient IP addresses
Richard Chirgwin reports: Venerable leak site Cryptome.org has ‘fessed up to a data leak that saw some users’ IP addresses reach the Internet. After initially dismissing data posted by security researcher Michael Best as a mockup, Cryptome founder John Young conceded that a USB key sent to some of the site’s supporters included site statistics…
America’s Thrift Stores notifies customers of payment card breach
Thrift store chain America’s Thrift Stores has disclosed a data breach involving an unnamed third-party provider. A statement prominently linked from their home page begins: A Statement From Our CEO Concerning Cyber Security Dear Customers, America’s Thrift Stores recently learned that it was the victim of a data security breach that occurred through software used by…
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…
Scout Association’s shelved database won’t be back until next year
Kat Hall reports: The Scout Association has further delayed the date for restoring its troubled Compass database, which contains the details of 450,000 young people and volunteer adults. The new live date has been tentatively set for January 2016, a year since it was originally taken down following revelations by The Register of serious concerns surrounding the security…