Motherboard is reporting that over 7 million user accounts belonging to the Minecraft community “Lifeboat” are for sale. Security researcher Troy Hunt is loading the data onto his web site “Have I been Pwned?” so that people can check if there data was in hacked group. Lifeboat runs servers for custom multiplayer editions of Minecraft […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As could be expected, the Wendy’s data breach saga continues. A proposed class action lawsuit was filed by a credit union in Pittsburgh representing all banks who were affected by the breach. As reported by Brian Krebs in March, credit unions said that they saw a rise in fraudulent credit card use that was greater […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I guess it should not come as a big surprise as there are more hacks and breaches, but the degree of lost confidence by federal government employees in the last two years is still staggering. Dell conducted a survey of federal government employees in 2014 and again this year and the numbers are amazing. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Businesses have always outsourced work. It used to be plumbers and what were referred to as “the trades”. Now it is programmers and manufacturing. What is different now is the degree of connectedness that those suppliers have. A couple of examples: Target uses HVAC contractors to maintain the refrigeration in their stores. It used to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Billboard is reporting that Sony and the employees suing them as a result of the breach last year have come to a tentative agreement. The employees were suing for negligence and privacy violations. If the settlement is approved, The employees will get $2 million – up to $1,000 each – for preventative measures taken against […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]T-Mobile and Experian both announced that an Experian database containing credit application data for prospective T-Mobile customers (people who applied to finance a new phone or new phone service) between September 2013 and September 2015 was accessed by hackers. T-Mobile outsources their credit application process to Experian, which is typical, and that is where the […]
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