The FBI has an update on a hacking case previously reported on this site: A recently closed California hacking and identity theft case sadly illustrates the misery that can be visited on unsuspecting victims when their personal information is compromised. Between 2011 and 2014, four U.S. citizens who resided in San Diego—but carried out their…
Under Armour says data breach affected about 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts
Chloe Aiello reports: Shares of Under Armour dropped 3.8 percent, before paring losses, after the active-wear company informed users of its online fitness and nutrition website their data had been compromised. Under Armour announced on Thursday that the breach affected an estimated 150 million users of its food and nutrition application, MyFitnessPal. The investigation indicates…
Minneapolis FBI agent charged with leaking classified information to reporter
Mukhtar M. Ibrahim reports: A Minneapolis FBI agent who started his career with the agency as an intern in 2000 has been charged with leaking classified information to the news website The Intercept. Terry James Albury’s attorneys, JaneAnne Murray and Joshua Dratel, said in a statement that their client, the only African-American FBI field agent…
Grindr security flaws expose users’ location data
Brian Latimer reports: Grindr, a gay-dating app, suffers from two security issues that can expose the information of its more than 3 million daily users, including the location data of people who have opted out of sharing such information, according to cybersecurity experts. The security flaws were identified by Trever Faden, CEO of the property…
Thousands of Bestiality Users Exposed in Hack
Joseph Cox reports: Thousands of user account details—many related to a bestiality website—are circulating on public image boards, according to data obtained by Motherboard. Details include email addresses, alleged IP addresses, and other apparent personal information linked to an often illegal sexual practice. The news shows how websites that deal with the most controversial subjects…
NYS Data breaches exposed personal information of 9.2M New Yorkers in 2017
WHEC reports: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was in Rochester Thursday to release a new report on data breaches impacting New Yorkers. The attorney general released “Information Exposed: 2017 Data Breaches in New York State,” documenting the record number of data breach notices filed with his office in 2017. In 2017, companies and other entities reported 1,583…