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  • Woman stalked by sandwich server via her COVID-19 contact tracing info
  • Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
  • Radiohead refuses to pay $150,000 ransom for ‘hacked’ recordings, releases them instead
  • Cloud computing giant PCM hacked
  • Docker breach of 190,000 users exposes lack of two-factor authentication
  • LastPass: Keylogger on home PC led to cracked corporate password vault
  • Security researcher arrested after data on every adult in Bulgaria hacked from government site
  • Harmony blockchain loses nearly $100M due to hacked private keys

LastPass: Keylogger on home PC led to cracked corporate password vault

Published: 2023-02-28 02:23:16

Popularity: 140

Author: Paul Ducklin

Keywords:

  • Data loss
  • breach
  • keylogger
  • LastPass
  • malware

    • Seems the crooks implanted a keylogger via a vulnerable media app (LastPass politely didn't say which one!) on a developer's home computer.

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    Harmony blockchain loses nearly $100M due to hacked private keys

    Published: 2022-06-27 18:14:53

    Popularity: 13

    Author: Paul Ducklin

    Keywords:

  • Cryptocurrency
  • Data loss
  • crypto
  • ether
  • hack
  • Harmony

    • The crooks needed at least two private keys, each stored in two parts... but they got them anyway.

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    Woman stalked by sandwich server via her COVID-19 contact tracing info

    Published: 2020-05-14 12:52:57

    Popularity: 2329

    Author: Lisa Vaas

    Keywords:

  • Data loss
  • Privacy
  • Security threats
  • breach
  • contact tracing
  • coronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • cyberstalking
  • pandemic
  • pii
  • stalking
  • Subway
  • surveillance

    • She wanted a sub, not Facebook, Instagram and SMS come-ons from the guy who served her and intercepted her contact-tracing details.

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    Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack

    Published: 2020-03-05 11:03:22

    Popularity: 741

    Author: Lisa Vaas

    Keywords:

  • Data loss
  • Law & order
  • Privacy
  • Security threats
  • breach
  • class action
  • data breach
  • Draw Something
  • Gnosticplayers
  • hashing
  • lawsuit
  • online games
  • passwords
  • salt
  • salting
  • sha-1
  • SHA1
  • social games
  • Words With Friends
  • Zynga

    • It's charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says.

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    Security researcher arrested after data on every adult in Bulgaria hacked from government site

    Published: 2019-07-18 07:58:06

    Popularity: 105

    Author: Graham Cluley

    Keywords:

  • Data loss
  • Law & order
  • Privacy
  • Vulnerability
  • bulgaria
  • data breach
  • vulnerability

    • Police in Bulgaria have arrested a 20-year-old man after a hack against the Bulgarian tax authority, known as the National Revenue Agency (NRA), which saw data on every single adult living in Bulgaria stolen, and offered to the media.

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    Cloud computing giant PCM hacked

    Published: 2019-07-01 12:33:36

    Popularity: 522

    Author: Danny Bradbury

    Keywords:

  • Data loss
  • gift cards
  • hack

    • The attackers allegedly stole admin credentials for Office 365 accounts, and planned to use stolen data to conduct gift card fraud.

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    Radiohead refuses to pay $150,000 ransom for ‘hacked’ recordings, releases them instead

    Published: 2019-06-12 07:08:00

    Popularity: 684

    Author: Graham Cluley

    Keywords:

  • Data loss
  • data breach
  • extortion
  • Radiohead

    • How do you stop a hacker from making a fortune out of the files they have stolen from you? Files that thousands of people are probably desperate to own? Simple. You make the files readily available to anyone on the internet to access.

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    Docker breach of 190,000 users exposes lack of two-factor authentication

    Published: 2019-04-30 10:48:08

    Popularity: 397

    Author: John E Dunn

    Keywords:

  • Data loss
  • Security threats
  • 2FA
  • data breach
  • MFA
  • password breach

    • The containerisation platform has asked 190k users to change their passwords after hackers gained access to a database of personal data.

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