Category: data breach

MGM data breach exposed personal details of 10.6 million hotel guests

Post author By Randall
Post date February 20, 2020
Categories In data breach, gear, mgm, Security, Tech

[ad_1] If you’ve stayed at an MGM Resorts hotel, you may be among victims of the latest massive data breach. The personal details of more than 10.6 million hotel guests were recently posted on a hacking forum, and ZDNet has confirmed the data’s authenticity. ZDNet said the data dump contains affected guests’ full names, home […]

It doesn’t matter if China hacked Equifax

Post author By Randall
Post date February 14, 2020
Categories In attorney general, bad password, badpassword, business, cfpb, China, class action lawsuit, data breach, equifax, fdic, federal reserve, gadgetry, gear, golden parachute, hackers, infosec, Internet, mick mulvaney, Mobile, opinion, personal computing, personalcomputing, Politics, Security, services, Tech, william barr, wordpress

[ad_1] It was a message of PR reprieve for the skinsuits at Equifax, who spend their life cycles profiting from tracking and trading our personal and financial information (and we’re powerless to stop them). Especially now as we’re seeing reports about how four Chinese hackers “took down Equifax.” That sure sounds a lot better (for […]

Facebook says it will tighten account security following 2018 hack

Post author By Randall
Post date February 8, 2020
Categories In breach, data breach, Facebook, gear, Internet, Security, settlement, Social Media, social network, social networking, Tech

[ad_1] The settlement comes a few months after Judge William Alsup barred the plaintiffs from looking for financial compensation after the main plaintiff couldn’t show that he’d had to pay expenses as a result of the breach. There’s no guarantee the settlement will go forward as-is. That will depend on Judge Alsup’s approval. If it […]

Phishing scams leveled up, and we didn’t

Post author By Randall
Post date January 31, 2020
Categories In bad password, badpassword, business, data breach, Facebook, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, hacks, infosec, Internet, jamal khashoggi, jeff bezos, Mobile, opinion, phishing, phishing scams, proofpoint, ransomware, Security, services, Tech, whatsapp, wordpress

[ad_1] In case you missed it, on January 22nd The Guardian reported, “Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone ‘hacked’ in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.” According to the now-contested report by FTI Consulting cited by The […]

Microsoft accidently exposed 250 million customer service records

Post author By Randall
Post date January 22, 2020
Categories In Cybersecurity, data, data breach, data exposure, database, gear, Internet, Microsoft, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Security researcher Bob Diachenko and Comparitech discovered the vulnerability on December 29th. Microsoft quickly fixed the issue two days later. It says the exposure was caused by a “misconfiguration” of one of its internal customer support databases. The company claims it found no evidence of “malicious use.” The server included conversation logs dating as […]

Guardian: Saudi prince’s account used to hack Jeff Bezos via WhatsApp

Post author By Randall
Post date January 21, 2020
Categories In Amazon, breach, business, data breach, gear, Hack, jeff bezos, malware, mbs, Mobile, mohammad bin salman, Saudi Arabia, Security, Tech

[ad_1] The breach was apparently carried out in early May 2018, when Bezos received an unsolicited message from the crown prince — or an entity in control of his WhatsApp account. That message allegedly contained a video file that forensic analysis later concluded was highly likely to contain malware that allowed “large amounts of data” […]

Wyze leaks personal data for 2.4 million security camera users

Post author By Randall
Post date December 30, 2019
Categories In data breach, gear, leak, Security, Tech, twelve security, wyze

[ad_1] The issue was uncovered by consulting firm Twelve Security, who announced that sensitive user data had been left exposed on the internet. This included a staggering array of personal information including email addresses, a list of cameras in the house, WiFi SSIDs and even health information including height, weight, gender, bone density and more. […]

FBI program helps companies fool hackers with ‘decoy data’

Post author By Randall
Post date December 21, 2019
Categories In data breach, fbi, gear, hacking, idle, Internet, Law Enforcement, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Although the FBI isn’t sharing the finer details of how IDLE works, an official told Ars it mixes data within existing data structures to make it appear authentic. A hacker couldn’t just grab data in bulk and expect it all to be useful, and merely downloading the decoys could warn IT staff that something […]

T-Mobile confirms customers’ personal data accessed in hack

Post author By Randall
Post date November 22, 2019
Categories In data breach, gear, Mobile, Security, t-mobile, Tech

[ad_1] Affected customers in the US are being notified via a text message which directs them to a page on T-Mobile’s website. “Our Cybersecurity team discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access to some information related to your T-Mobile prepaid wireless account,” the page reads. Hackers were able to access data including names and billing […]

Macy’s says its website leaked credit card info to hackers for a week

Post author By Randall
Post date November 19, 2019
Categories In breach, card skimming, data breach, e-commerce, gear, Hack, Internet, macy's, magecart, Security, shopping, Tech

[ad_1] The technique, known as Magecart, has grown in popularity among hackers for its mix of relative simplicity and effectiveness. They don’t have to do much more than insert rogue scripts (pointed to remote command-and-control servers) and wait for people to go shopping. From there, they can use the info to make fraudulent purchases, make […]