Qantas confirms 5.7M customers' personal info was held on the system compromised in a recent cyberattack, including names, emails, addresses, and phone numbers
2.8 million had FF numbers accessed - some also had points balance and status credits included — 1.7 million had more data on compromised records, incl address, DOB, phone number, gender meal prefer...
Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a “malicious cyberattack”, about two weeks after hackers put 31M customers' alleged personal data on Telegram
name, DOB, address, phone, PAN card and salary for Indians is selling it for $150k. Hacker claims CISO Amarjeet Khurana sold him the data. Nothing is private in India. [image] Vansh Pandita / @vansh_p...
Austrian police say a hacker, arrested in November, tried to sell the name, gender, address, and DOB of “presumably every citizen” in Austria, or 9.1M people
A Dutch hacker arrested in November obtained and offered for sale the full name, address and date of birth …
Researcher finds what appears to be an unsecured facial recognition database of 2.5M+ Uyghur Muslims in China, with ID card data and near real-time GPS data
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @b_nishanov , @einsteinsattic , @mattburgess1 , and @alfredwkng . Thanks: @campuscodi Tweets: Bakhti Nishanov / @b_nishanov : If you continue to have doubts China is...
Marriott International says 500M records from the guest reservation database of Starwood Hotels were stolen in a massive data breach dating as far back as 2014
you ruined my credit card, hotels, loyalty program and then your shitty IT means you lost my personal data. Andrea Matwyshyn / @amatwyshyn : “In its quarterly filing dated Nov. 6, Marriott added a war...
How SSNs plus birthdates can still be leveraged to access tons more data via US FAFSA site, after an IRS tool with a similar flaw was disabled in March
KrebsOnSecurity has sought to call attention to online services which expose sensitive consumer data if the user knows a handful … Tweets: @briankrebs and @troyhunt Tweets: @briankrebs : Name, DoB and...
Andy Rubin apologizes for email, misconfigured as a group message, sent to Essential customers requesting personal info, like DOB, to which ~70 replied
now it might have accidentally phished them Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo : Essential's Shipping Issues Have Gone From Bad to Train Wreck Sean Hollister / CNET : Essential admits it accidentally leaked cus...
Takeover of Brian Krebs' PayPal account illustrates why authentication via static identifiers (like SSN and DOB) is highly vulnerable to identity thieves
2016 Reality: Lazy Authentication Still the Norm — My PayPal account was hacked on Christmas Eve.
Takeover of Brian Krebs' PayPal account illustrates why authentication via static identifiers (like SSN and DOB) is highly vulnerable to identity thieves
2016 Reality: Lazy Authentication Still the Norm — My PayPal account was hacked on Christmas Eve.