Davey Winder reports: CafePress, the custom T-shirt and merchandise company, acquired by Snapfish for more than $25 million (£20 million) in November 2018, has been hacked. According to various reports, the breach that compromised more than 23 million accounts happened on February 20. Is yours one of them? What is known about the CafePress breach?…
Monzo security breach: digital bank is asking some customers to change their pin
Jake Tucker reports: British banking start-up Monzo has reached out to around half a million customers after a glitch revealed plain text PIN details to engineers. Those contacted have been asked to change their card PIN after the security hiccup, but it’s a substantial breach of security and bad news for the digital bank, which…
Security breach brings down shutters on 7Pay
Michael Carroll reports: Bosses at retailer 7-Eleven Japan called time on its fledgling 7Pay mobile payment service, after deeming attempts to recover from a major security breach were too onerous. The service launched on 1 July offering cashless payments in the retailer’s chain of convenience stores, but within days the set-up was attacked by fraudsters…
One Misconfig (JIRA) to Leak Them All- Including NASA and Hundreds of Fortune 500 Companies!
Avinash Jain writes: Some months back, I published an article on “Exposed JIRA server leaks NASA staff and project data” in which I was able to find NASA staff details, their username, their email ids along with their internal project details which were getting leaked by one of their tools — JIRA which is an…
Lost garda documents fell from back of bike
Darrah McDonagh reports: Garda documents fell off the back of a motorcycle when it hit a speed bump and were never recovered, according to records. The incident was one of more than 40 data-protection breaches involving sensitive information held by the Department of Justice and Equality that were recorded last year. Read more on The…
Ikea says sorry for customer data breach due to email gaffe
Malavika Menon reports: Swedish retailer Ikea yesterday apologised to affected customers in Singapore after the company inserted 410 individual e-mail addresses in the wrong message field of a promotional mailer and sent it out. A spokesman for Ikea Singapore said the incident occurred at 4.57pm last Thursday and that it “regretfully made an error of…