Hack Brief: Someone Posted Private Facebook Messages From 81,000 Accounts

The data appears to have been stolen with malicious browser extensions, and not by exploiting an issue with Facebook’s platform...

Equifax Has Chosen Experian. Wait, What?

A year after offering free credit monitoring to all Americans on account of its massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 148 million people, Equifax now says it has chosen to extend the offer by turning to a credit monitoring service offered by a top competitor --...

Tomorrowland festival goers affected by data breach

Tomorrowland, a major international music festival, has revealed a data breach potentially affecting around 60,000 attendees. This one is a little different though, as the data accessed without permission isn't recent. In fact, it dates back four years to an event long since come and gone...

Information security: How Hackers Leverage Stolen Data for Profit

Data theft is inarguably big business for hackers. This has been proven time and time again when big-name companies and their customers are involved in a data breach. As these instances appear to take place more often, and the number of stolen or compromised files continues to rise, it's worth...

Girl Scouts Issues Data Breach Warning to 2,800 Members

The Orange County, Calif. branch of the Girl Scouts of America has been hacked, potentially exposing personal information for thousands of members. Rest assured though: The cookies are safe, even those of the computing type. According to a letter to members filed with the state PDF, an...

ThreatList: 1 Out of 5 Would Ditch a Business After a Data Breach

About a fifth of Americans would ditch a business in the wake of a major data breach, new research has found. In a survey of 2,000 adult consumers across the United States by PCI Pal, almost half 44 percent of them have personally suffered the negative consequences of a security breach or hack. S...

British Airways Data Breach Takes Off Again with 185K More Victims

British Airways said that the data breach it first reported in September is larger than previously thought. It has added an additional 185,000 victims to the official tally. The airline said that hackers may have stolen personal data connected to an additional 77,000 payment cards, including name...

Cathay Pacific hit by massive data breach; 10 million passengers affected

By Waqas Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Limited has suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of 9.4 million customers has been stolen by unknown hackers. Cathay Pacific states that the stolen data includes passenger name, date of birth, nationality, email, phone number, frequent...

Huge breach affects 9 million Cathay Pacific customers

Airlines aren’t having a good time of things at the moment. Even if you managed to dodge the recent British Airways fallout, you may well be caught up in the latest breach affecting no fewer than 9 million customers of Cathay Pacific. So what was taken? The impact this time around isn’t so much...

New Relic: Swiftype key stored in JavaScript source

Hi, I am surfing on the newrelic website. I found a sensitive data including authentication key written in public accessible javascript file. Some 3rd party solution SwiftType newrelic using for crawling or search/suggestion. below is the link where you can find the authkey. which would be able t...

Adult Website Hack Exposes 1.2M ‘Wife Lover’ Fans

The database underlying an erotica site known as Wife Lovers has been hacked, making off with user information protected only by a simple-to-crack, outdated hashing technique known as the DEScrypt algorithm. Over the weekend, it came to light that Wife Lovers and seven sister sites, all similarly...

Obamacare Sign-Up Channel Breach Affects 75K Consumers

A hack of the government’s Affordable Care Act-mandated healthcare exchanges has exposed the files of 75,000 individuals. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS, its staff detected “anomalous activity” in the Direct Enrollment pathway on Oct. 13 – with a breach declared...

Personal data of 75,000 individuals exposed after HealthCare.gov system hack

By Waqas Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS experienced a data breach leading to exposure of highly sensitive personal data of nearly 75,000 people. The CMS is a government system linked with healthCare.gov which assists insurance agents and brokers in helping people register for its...

Tumblr Privacy Bug Could Have Exposed Sensitive Account Data

Tumblr on Wednesday disclosed it had fixed a vulnerability that could have exposed sensitive account information including usernames/passwords and individual IP addresses. However, the company stressed there’s no evidence that any data was exposed. The bug existed in the “Recommended Blogs” featu...

Tumblr Patches A Flaw That Could Have Exposed Users' Account Info

Tumblr today published a report admitting the presence of a security vulnerability in its website that could have allowed hackers to steal login credentials and other private information for users' accounts. The affected information included users email addresses, protected hashed and salted...

CVE-2018-2887

Vulnerability in the MICROS Retail-J component of Oracle Retail Applications subcomponent: Back Office. Supported versions that are affected are 13.0.0 and 12.1.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise MICROS Retail-J. Successf...

CVE-2018-3235

CVE-2018-3235 is a vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite’s Oracle Applications Manager (AOM). Affected versions include 12.1.3 and 12.2.3–12.2.7. The issue allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise AOM, with successful attacks potentially granting unauthoriz...

CVE-2018-3198

The CVE refers to Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Portal vulnerability (CVE-2018-3198) affecting PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.55, 8.56, and 8.57. The issue allows an unauthenticated, network-accessible attacker over HTTP to read a subset of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools data. The CVSSv3 ...

CVE-2018-2889

CVE-2018-2889 affects Oracle MICROS Retail-J (Internal Operations) in Oracle Retail Applications, version 12.1.2. The flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Retail-J, potentially gaining unauthorized access to confidential data. The documents show CVSS ...

CVE-2018-3189

CVE-2018-3189 affects Oracle E-Business Suite’s Customer Interaction History component (subcomponent Outcome-Result) for versions 12.1.1–12.1.3. It is exploitable over HTTP by an unauthenticated attacker and requires user interaction; impacts include unauthorized disclosure and data modification ...