If you were a customer of Get Fresh Auto in Detroit, you may want to read a report by Randy Wimbley for Fox2. Contacted after a watchdog found customer information just dumped on a debris-littered street, the used car dealership’s owner’s responses to the reporter’s questions about how the papers wound up there reminded me of Sgt. Schultz in Hogan’s Heroes. “As soon…
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2016 goes out with a hack as thedarkoverlord dumps more data
At 00:00 UTC, TheDarkOverlord issued a “press release.” Depending on where you reside, it made for a bad end to 2016, which was already a pretty terrible year for breaches, or a rotten start to 2017. Several days ago, DataBreaches.net reported on several hacks TheDarkOverlord (TDO) had announced. As expected, TDO has now dumped more data from…
KeepKey notifies customers of security incident, offers 30 BTC reward for tips leading to attacker’s arrest
KeepKey, a hardware bitcoin wallet, has disclosed how a brief compromise of the company phone and email enabled the attacker to reset some account passwords. Here’s how KeepKey responded to the attack and the attacker: A Message from the Founder About Email Breach Our guiding principle at KeepKey is building open and transparent products for our most…
US government subcontractor leaks confidential military personnel data
Charlie Osborne reports: A Pentagon subcontractor has exposed reams of highly sensitive details belonging to active military healthcare professionals online, some of which hold top-secret security clearances. Potomac Healthcare Solutions, a subcontractor brought on board to supply healthcare professionals to the US government and military organizations through its Washington, DC.-based contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, was…
Topps’ payment card breach was just its latest data security incident
A number of sites have now reported on Topps‘ recent disclosure that on October 12, it became aware of unauthorized access to payment card information for customers using the topps.com website between July 30 and October 12. A copy of the sports card and memorabilia giant’s notification can be found on several state regulators’ sites but not, it seems…
CT: Former Shelton High School student arrested for hacking school system’s server
Samantha Schoenfeld reports: A teenager has been arrested after police say the teen hacked his school district’s computers. According to Shelton Police, a former Shelton High School student was arrested on Thursday and charged with computer crimes in the third degree. The teen is being held in juvenile detention and will be in court Friday. Police say that between November and…