Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The personal information of almost 5 million parents and more than 200,000 kids was exposed earlier this month after a hacker broke into the servers of a Chinese company that sells kids toys and gadgets, Motherboard has learned. The hacked data includes names, email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents…
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UK: Children’s charity hit by server theft
Alexander J. Martin reports: A two-man break in at the London offices of children’s charity Plan UK has resulted in theft of five computer servers. Plan UK has stated that while “the likely motive was to steal the equipment itself, rather than the data … we cannot escape the fact that personal information is also…
‘We complained to Santander CEO of data breach – and were sent documents of three other customers’
Nicole Blackmore reports: Santander has been labelled “incompetent” after a string of errors that saw it lose a couple’s mortgage documents and instead send them letters containing four different customers’ private information in a “gross breach” of data protection laws. Read more on The Telegraph.
Hungryhouse resets thousands of customers’ passwords
Kat Hall reports: Online takeaway service Hungryhouse has reset the passwords of thousands of its customers following an apparent data breach at a third party hosting company. Scott Fletcher, chief executive of Hungryhouse, said: “We had no affiliation with the web hosting company that was hit by a data breach. But when our head of…
Turkish Attackers Shut Down Russian Central Bank Website
Waqas writes: Turkish hackers just took down the official website of Russian Central Bank amid tension near Syrian-Turkey border. A group of Turkish hacktivist going with the handle of Turk Hack Team has conducted a powerful DDoS attack on the official website of Russian Central Bank earlier today forcing it to go offline for over 10 minutes. While talking…
Armenian Group Hacks Azerbaijan Central Bank, Leaks A Trove of Data
Agan Uzunovic reports: The cyber war between Armenians and Azerbaijani hackers is never ending — Like in this recent cyber attack in which the Armenian hackers leaked trove of data containing banking details of Azerbaijani citizens. In July 2, 2015, Armenian hackers from Monte Melkonian Cyber Army hacked into the official website of Azerbaijani customs, stealing highly confidential personal information of 5650 Azerbaijani…