An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: New details about how Uber responded to a massive hack attack in 2016 raise questions about the way it handled sensitive customer information. Instead of reporting the hackers to police, the company allegedly paid $100,000 in exchange for a promise to delete 57 million user files the men stole off a third…
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Is AT&T Hiding A Widespread Voicemail Outage?
Though people can still leave voicemail messages, “Some AT&T customers say they have not had access to their voicemail since the beginning of October,” one local news site reported this week: An AT&T spokesperson sent the following statement to ABC11 about the issue: “We’re aware that some customers may be having difficulty retrieving their voicemail due to a vendor server problem….
Libertarian Accused of Faking 1.5M Net Neutrality Comments Using Data-Breached Addresses
BuzzFeed says they’ve identified two firms which “misappropriated names and personal information as part of a bid to submit more than 1.5 million statements” pretending to oppose net neutrality regulations: The anti-net neutrality comments harvested on behalf of Broadband for America, the industry group that represented telecommunications giants including AT&T, Cox, and Comcast, were uploaded to the FCC website by Media…
DoorDash Confirms Data Breach Affected 4.9 Million Customers, Workers, and Merchants
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: DoorDash has confirmed a data breach. The food delivery company said in a blog post Thursday that 4.9 million customers, delivery workers and merchants had their information stolen by hackers. The breach happened on May 4, the company said, but added that customers who joined after April 5, 2018 are not affected by…
New York Sues Dunkin’ Donuts Over Hack Affecting Thousands of People
Dunkin’ Donuts is facing a lawsuit from the New York attorney general over its failure to disclose a data breach affecting nearly 20,000 people. The hack affected thousands of people signed up for the company’s “DD Perks” loyalty program. From a report: The lawsuit alleges that Dunkin’ Donuts failed to protect its customers, and knew about the cyberattacks for years before…
Credit Karma Glitch Exposed Users To Other People’s Accounts
Users of credit monitoring site Credit Karma have took to Reddit and Twitter to complain that they were served other people’s account information when they logged in. TechCrunch has confirmed several screenshots that show other people’s accounts, including details about their credit card accounts and their current balance. When contacted, a Credit Karma spokesperson said these users “experienced a technical malfunction…
Lawsuit Filed Against GitHub In Wake of Capital One Data Breach
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Capital One and GitHub have been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the recent data breach that resulted in the data of over 100 million Capital One customers being exposed. The law firm Tycko & Zavareei LLP filed the lawsuit on Thursday, arguing that GitHub and Capital One demonstrated negligence in their…
Capital One’s Breach Was Inevitable, Because We Did Nothing After Equifax
An anonymous reader shares a report: Another day, another massive data breach. This time it’s the financial giant and credit card issuer Capital One, which revealed on Monday a credit file breach affecting 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians. Sound familiar? It should. Just last week, credit rating giant Equifax settled for more than $575 million over a date breach…
Capital One Says Hacker Breached Accounts of 100 Million People; Ex-Amazon Employee Arrested
CaptainDork shares a report from Forbes: Capital One said Monday that sensitive financial information — including social security and bank account numbers — from over 100 million people were exposed in a massive data breach that led to the arrest of former Amazon employee Paige Thompson, a hacker who lives in Seattle. The information was taken from credit card applications submitted…
Equifax To Pay At Least $575M as Part of FTC Settlement
Equifax has agreed to pay at least $575 million to the US Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and all 50 states over its massive 2017 data breach. From a report: If that isn’t enough to compensate people impacted by the breach, the credit reporting company could have to pay up to $700 million — a figure we got…