A property management company owned by hotel chain Best Western has exposed 179 GB of sensitive travel information on thousands of travelers.
Tag Archives: Data loss
Storing your stuff securely in the cloud
How much of our stuff is going to the cloud? Probably a lot more than you realize. Let’s look at the risks and how to mitigate them.
Much-attacked Baltimore uses ‘mind-bogglingly’ bad data storage
IT workers have been storing files on their computers’ hard drives. One councilman’s alleged response: “That can’t be right? That’s real?”
Hackers hack card details from BriansClub carding site
They stole 26 million credit cards from the massive black market site, and now financial institutions are ensuring the cards can’t be abused.
Food writer Jack Monroe loses at least £5,000 in SIM-swap fraud
Her accounts were drained in spite of using 2FA, showing that SIM swaps can still circumvent what’s a good security tool.
Hacker asking $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site
In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.
Ransomware attacks paralyze, and sometimes crush, hospitals
New attacks on the perennially besieged sector have crippled hospitals in the US and Australia and caused one health clinic to shut down.
218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers
The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords.
Darknet hosting provider busted in underground NATO bunker
Police overcame not only digital defenses of the “bulletproof” provider CyberBunker but also barbed wire fences and surveillance cams.
Match knowingly puts people at risk from scammers, FTC charges
Match.com allegedly put users on its free version at risk – by not filtering out communications that it knew were from fake accounts.