Feb 23, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: LocalBitcoins No. of Accounts Breached: 6 as of press time What was affected: It confirmed that the vulnerability allowed the attacker to gain access to an undisclosed number of accounts, although, at press time, it only knew of six cases where users had been...
Feb 23, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: B&Q Stores No. of Accounts Breached: 70,000 What was affected: The breached database contained a list of people who had been caught stealing products from B&Q stores. The document included the names of the offenders, the items they had stolen, the value...
Feb 23, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Salisbury Maryland Police Department What was affected: A Ransomware attack compromised the department’s entire internal computer network. When it happened: January 9, 2019 How it happened: A “criminal” attacker accessed its network through a longtime...
Oct 13, 2018 | Business, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Breach, Bug, Hack. When Does A Business Have A Responsibility To Inform Its Customers? For months, Google has been trying to stay out of the way of the growing tech backlash, but yesterday, the dam finally broke with news of a bug in the rarely used Google+ network...