John Leyden reports: A data breach at a forum for “anal fisting” has resulted in the exposure of 107,000 accounts. More than a third (37 per cent) of those affected by the Rosebutt Board were already included in the Have I Been Pwned? site, according to security researcher Troy Hunt. Victims will be able to use Have I Been Pwned? to…
Firms Suffering Data Breaches Can Tap Free Customer Fraud Protection
There’s no such thing as a free lunch but there’s free fraud protection services? I don’t understand the business model here. David Weldon reports: Organizations that suffer data breaches may now be able to offer free fraud protection to their customers through a new program announced this week. Austin, Texas-based data security and analytics company…
MS: Dozens of LCSD Employees Victims of ID Theft
Wade Phillips reports: Dozens of employees in the Lauderdale County School System have had their personal information taken and school officials still aren’t sure how it happened. School officials confirmed about 70 employees of the school system had their information stolen. They say someone tried to file tax returns under those names. So… could be…
Texas man pleaded guilty for IRS ‘Get Transcript’ scam
Carten Cordell reports: A Houston man pleaded guilty on May 9 to claiming fraudulent tax refunds with information stolen from an IRS database. Denzel Roberts, 24, is charged with theft of public money for his role in a scheme to file bogus tax returns with information taken from the “Get Transcript” database, an online feature that…
Utkal admission offline as hackers strike again
Express News Service reports: The PG Council of Utkal University on Tuesday was forced to shift from the ongoing e-admission to offline admission following attempts to hack the admission website (www.eadmission.utkaluniversity.ac.in). Server of the website was deactivated by the university officials on Monday evening as there were frequent attempts to breach the security walls. This…
UserVoice Security Incident
As posted on their site yesterday: Please see our blog post from May 9, 2016 announcing a security incident at https://community.uservoice.com/blog/uservoice-security-incident-notification/ What Happened? In late April, the UserVoice security team learned that an unauthorized party illegally accessed one of UserVoice’s backend reporting systems and was able to view user data on a small subset of users….