Erik Sherman reports: If you live in the United States, there’s almost a 50 percent chance your personal data was lost in the giant Equifax data breach a year ago of 143 million records. Google had its own data breach in October this year that exposed data on as many as 500,000 accounts. Or the…
Category: Of Note
Firefox Monitor 2.0 gives you desktop notifications if a site suffers a data breach
Natasha Lomas reports: Mozilla is adding a new security feature to its Firefox Quantum web browser that will alert users when they visit a website that has recently reported a data breach. When a Firefox user lands on a website with a breach in its recent past they’ll see a pop up notification informing them…
One in five Magecart-infected stores get reinfected within days
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Online stores that have been infected with the Magecart malware –known to record and steal credit card details from checkout forms– often get reinfected after clean-up operations, a recent report has revealed. “In the last quarter, 1 out of 5 breached stores were infected (and cleaned) multiple times, some even up to…
Do you login to merchant sites using your FB or Google credentials? The Annex Cloud breach may have affected you.
Hmm. This one could result in big numbers. A notification from Title Nine about Annex Cloud. Annex Cloud is a service provider that you may never have heard of but may have used many times. The notification explains: Annex Cloud provides a service that enables individuals to use their user name and password from social media…
UK: Six month prison sentence for motor industry employee in first ICO Computer Misuse Act prosecution
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A motor industry employee has been sentenced to six months in prison in the first prosecution to be brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under legislation which carries a potential prison sentence. Mustafa Kasim, who worked for accident repair firm Nationwide Accident Repair Services (NARS), accessed thousands of customer…
Italian prosecutors have given up on catching the person who hacked and destroyed Hacking Team
Cory Doctorow reports: Hacking Team (previously) was an Italian company that developed cyberweapons that it sold to oppressive government around the world, to be used against their own citizens to monitor and suppress political oppositions; in 2015, a hacker calling themselves “Phineas Fisher” hacked and dumped hundreds of gigabytes’ worth of internal Hacking Team data,…