The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Taiwan-based computer networking equipment manufacturer D-Link Corporation and its U.S. subsidiary, alleging that inadequate security measures taken by the company left its wireless routers and Internet cameras vulnerable to hackers and put U.S. consumers’ privacy at risk. In a complaint filed in the Northern District of California,…
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TX: Letter notifies 23,000 NISD employees, students of email breach
Katrina Webber reports: The Northside Independent School District has sent letters to about 23,000 former and current students and employees regarding a security breach that might have put their personal information at risk. NISD spokesman Barry Perez said school district officials first got a hint about the trouble in August when it was discovered that…
OH: Hilliard Bradley High School hacked, students’ information exposed
Tyler Carter reports: Officials say students’ private information was exposed at Hilliard Bradley High School. Authorities say two students are to blame. Court documents state that a student at Hilliard Bradley High School hacked into a school computer and stole other students’ login information. Read more on NBC4. The report cites the police as saying…
Customer records from used car dealership found dumped in Detroit’s Brightmoor area
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…
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…