Thea Felicity reports: The anti-ICE activist app and website StopICE has reportedly suffered a major security breach, exposing the personal information of more than 100,000 users to US federal agencies, including the FBI, ICE and HSI. Hackers said they accessed names, logins, passwords, phone numbers and GPS coordinates, and sent the data directly to authorities. One…
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $14.2 million from eight car insurance companies for failing to protect the private information of more than 825,000 New Yorkers. The data breaches were part of a hacking campaign that targeted car insurance companies’ quoting tools and stole people’s personal information, including driver’s license……
WBRZ reports: The Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance sent out a letter to students warning them of a “data security incident” involving their information. The letter, dated Dec. 5, said the office is investigating an incident that “involved authorized access to certain LOSFA systems” and that an unauthorized party accessed or removed certain files……
When DataBreaches was a kid, the “new math” they were experimenting with had us learning binary and other systems. It didn’t go over well with us, our teachers, or our parents back then. Now the “new math” for me is UNCs — specifically 6040, 5537, 3944, and 6240. 6040+5537+3944 +6240 = Scattered Spider + ShinyHunters…
New research has pulled back the curtain on a “deficiency” in Google’s “Sign in with Google” authentication flow that exploits a quirk in domain ownership to gain access to sensitive data. “Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against someone purchasing a failed startup’s domain and using it to re-create email accounts for former employees,” Truffle Security…
Ellen Nakashima, Joseph Menn and Carolyn Y. Johnson report: The National Institutes of Health and the federal agency responsible for securing the nation’s nuclear weapons were among the victims in a global breach of Microsoft server software over the weekend, according to officials at the agencies. The incident at NIH, which has not been previously reported, involved…
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a “critical patch” but deploy a backdoor instead. WordPress security company Patchstack described the activity as sophisticated and a variant of another campaign observed in December 2023 that employed a fake CVE ploy to…
