1,200 Football Players’ Personal Data Exposed In NFL Leak — Colin Kaepernick Included
But that’s what has happened, in a data leak from the website of the NFL Players Association that affects as many as 1,135 football players. And hackers may now have access to all that information, a security expert warned Tuesday. Ostensibly, hackers had found the database, attempted to lock it up and demand payment to […]
Whole Foods Data Breach 2017: 10 Things We Know
“Whole Foods, which was recently acquired by Amazon, suffered a data breach of credit card information used in taprooms and full table-service restaurants in some of the grocery chain’s stores, the company said Thursday. Whole Foods noted these venues use a different point-of-sale system than the main checkout systems.” For full list, read here.. For […]
Millions Of Credit Card Numbers May Have Been Stolen In Sonic Drive-In Breach
“It’s a day of the week ending in “y,” which can only mean one thing: Another national company’s payment system has been compromised. This time, it’s the Sonic Drive-In fast food chain, where potentially millions of credit card numbers may have been stolen. KrebsOnSecurity.com confirmed the breach with Sonic earlier today, after recently coming across […]
Deloitte says it’s been hacked
“The global accountancy firm Deloitte said Monday it was the victim of a hack that targeted its email system. The cybersecurity breach, which was first reported by The Guardian newspaper on Monday, impacted “only very few clients,” Deloitte said in an emailed statement. The firm said it contacted “governmental authorities immediately after it became aware […]
SEC says its corporate filing system was hacked
“Federal securities regulators said late Wednesday that hackers gained access to the government’s electronic system for corporate filings and may have made illicit gains by trading on the information. The Securities and Exchange Commission discovered the intrusion, which occurred last year, only in August. The agency said in a statement that a software vulnerability in […]
Hackers broke into SEC computer systems and may have traded on the stolen information
Hackers broke into the systems of the top US securities regulator last year, and may have used confidential information to trade in the stock market. The Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday that criminals exploited a software vulnerability in its filing system. While the breach was detected in 2016 and the weakness patched, the SEC […]
Hackers stealing home buyers’ down payments
Hackers are posing as realtors and stealing down payments by accessing email accounts. Julie Watts reports on home buyers who have lost thousands of dollars from such scams. Watch the video here. Author: CBS News
Equifax has been sending customers straight into a hacker’s trap for weeks
The credit management company Equifax has been sending customers to a fake “phishing” website for weeks, potentially causing them to hand over their personal data and full financial information to hackers. The Verge reported Wednesday that Equifax representatives sent customers looking for help with the massive data breach — which potentially compromised 143 million people’s […]
U.S. moves to ban Kaspersky software in federal agencies amid concerns of Russian espionage.
The U.S. government on Wednesday moved to ban the use of a Russian brand of security software by federal agencies amid concerns the company has ties to state-sponsored cyberespionage activities. In a binding directive, acting homeland security secretary Elaine Duke ordered that federal civilian agencies identify Kaspersky Lab software on their networks. After 90 days, […]
Equifax had patch 2 months before hack and didn’t install it, security group says
SAN FRANCISCO — Hackers took advantage of an Equifax security vulnerability two months after an industry group discovered the coding flaw and shared a fix for it, raising questions about why Equifax didn’t update its software successfully when the danger became known. A week after Equifax revealed one of the largest breaches of consumers’ private […]