Dan Goodin reports: Hackers posted names, e-mail addresses, message histories, and partially protected login credentials for more than 158,000 forum users of Boxee.tv, the Web-based television service that was acquired by Samsung last year, researchers said. The breach occurred no later than last week, when a full copy of the purloined forum data became widely available,…
Update to State Bar of Nevada breach
There’s an update to the breach involving the State Bar of Nevada first reported on DataBreaches.net . Yesterday, the state bar posted a notice on their website on the News section: The State Bar of Nevada learned that criminals forced their way into a State Bar storage facility and stole some confidential records. The State Bar…
Possible security breach at Florida Radiology Consultants
WINK reports: On Tuesday morning, staff at Florida Radiology Consultants noticed someone had accessed their computer system, hours after they closed. Deputies say whoever did this, got in through an employee’s IP address. “Could have been robotic, actually human being you don’t mind because some of these attack take days,” said Shaun Book, of Area…
Password bug let me see shoppers’ credit cards in eBay ProStores, claims infosec bod
John Leyden reports: A serious vulnerability that potentially allowed shoplifters to empty eBay ProStores shops and swipe customer credit cards has been fixed – according to the security researcher who says he found the hole. Mark Litchfield, an infosec pro at Securatary, told us he discovered a flaw in eBay-owned ProStores that not only opened the door…
JSTOR notifying 800 users that account information was accessed by unauthorized individual(s)
JSTOR, a not-for-profit founded to help academic libraries and publishers (and part of ITHAKA), is notifying 800 users of a breach discovered on March 17: RE: Important Security Notice from JSTOR We are writing to let you know that your MyJSTOR account was recently accessed without authorization by a third party. What this means to you…
United Opt Out attacked; site destroyed
Shame on whoever did this: someone attacked United Opt Out, an information resource and advocacy site for parents who want to opt their children out of mandated state tests/high stakes testing. The organization also resists “market-based reforms that seek to privatize and destroy public education.” In a statement sent to DataBreaches.net, Peggy Robertson, one of…