Data Breach

Six years after blogging platform LiveJournal was hacked, the credentials of some 26 million users are being sold and traded on multiple hacker forums and the dark market. Complicating the breach’s fallout, the database’s old and/or unique passwords have allowed bad actors to launch targeted sextortion email campaigns. Another blogging platform, Dreamwidth, says it’s withstood…

The exposure of the PII of more than 3,500 California residents in the database of international multi-level marketing firm Arbonne following a breach on April 23 offers a glimpse into whether the state will enforce its new privacy statute that went into effect in January. Almost half of a four-page information sheet from Arbonne describing…

The recent breach of Home Chef, confirmed this week, after malicious actor Shiny Hunters sold eight million of its records on the dark web underscores the looming security challenge of managing employees who access business data from outside the confines of the secure network. “With increased BYOD and remote work, acceptable usage policy enforcement is…

An attack against British airline easyJet by “a highly sophisticated source” accessed the email addresses and travel details of approximately nine million customers, including credit card details of 2,208 customers. The company did not reveal when it learned of the attack or what a forensic investigation revealed, nor did it specify the breach date.  Although the…