A federal judge in Georgia has ruled that the class action lawsuit filed by banks against Home Depot over Home Depot’s massive 2014 breach may proceed. The judge ruled that the banks’ allegations of negligence on Home Depot’s part appear to have merit. That is probably not a great start for Team Home Depot. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Do you use 7-Zip? Do you even know what it is? One of the challenges that businesses and consumers have is that, like sausage, they often do not know what is in the software that they use. As a result, they could be diligent about applying patches and still be exposed to hackers. In this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What happens when criminals make off with $2 million in cyber currency? That is a good question. The Bitcoin exchange Gatecoin, based in Hong Kong, detected the breach on May 13th. If you put your money in the bank, those deposits are protected by Federal law in the case of fraudulent transactions and protected by […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Back in 2012, LinkedIn told its users that it had been hacked – to the tune of 6.5 million users. Well, it turns out, that was a tad bit shy of the truth. It turns out that the real number was 117 million email and password combinations. – roughly 18 times the number that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Nulled.io, a forum that sells compromised passwords, stolen bitcoins and other neat stuff was hacked recently, exposing email addresses of people buying and selling, purchase histories and messages between buyers and sellers for 500,000 members. Here is what the website looks like today: If you look at their “tag line” below their logo, it says […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In late 2014 Home Depot announced that hackers compromised their security and stole 50 million credit cards and another 50 million loyalty cards. 18 months later, there are still three class action lawsuits pending. One is close to settling. In a recent 10-K filing with the SEC, Home Depot said that they had spent over […]
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