DoorDash confirmed it suffered a data breach affecting roughly 4.9 million delivery people and merchants. In a blog post on Thursday, DoorDash said it noticed unusual activity from a third-party service provider earlier in September. After investigating the activity, it found an unauthorized third party was able to access DoorDash user data on May 4, 2019. DoorDash […]
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In one of the biggest data breaches ever, a hacker gained access to more than 100 million Capital One customers’ accounts and credit card applications earlier this year. Paige Thompson is accused of breaking into a Capital One server and gaining access to 140,000 Social Security numbers, 1 million Canadian Social Insurance numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers, in […]
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A federal grand jury has charged four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army with hacking Equifax and stealing personal data and trade secrets in one of the largest hacks on record. Attorney General William Barr said Monday that the scale of the theft in 2017 was “staggering” and the suspects obtained information for nearly 150 million Americans. […]
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A bug in the Google+ social media service left about 500,000 user accounts open to being compromised, though there is no evidence anyone’s personal information was misused, the company said Monday. Google said it was shutting down the consumer portion of Google+, which it acknowledged had not caught on with the general public. (The company […]
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Facebook said on Friday it found a security flaw in almost 50 million accounts that would allow hackers to take over people’s profiles, an additional blow to the social network’s record on privacy. Facebook did not say how many accounts had been taken over through the vulnerability. The company in a blog post said that someone had […]
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The data breach that Ticketmaster revealed in June is part of a larger credit card-skimming operation that has hit more than 800 e-commerce sites across the internet, according to cybersecurity firm RiskIQ. Hackers were able to penetrate InBenta Technologies, a firm that works with Ticketmaster, according to RiskIQ. Ticketmaster itself wasn’t breached, according to the […]
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Goldenvoice, producer of the yearly Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals, announced today that certain ticket buyers affected by an unauthorized and illegal hack into its database are being offered one year of complimentary identity protection services. From last September through February, an unauthorized third-party gained access to information collected in connection with the 2016 Coachella […]
