Daily deal website LivingSocial suffered a data breach compromising emails, passwords and more information for most of the site’s users resulting in the site requiring user’s to reset their passwords. Read More
Zappos Suffers Data Breach, Now Faces Class Action Suit
Zappos, the large online shoe retailer owned by Amazon, announced a data breach on January 15th compromising 24 million consumer records. Not many days later a civil negligence suit was filed against Zappos and parent company Amazon while lawyers seek to make it a class action law suit on behalf of all the data breach
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2011: The Year of the Data Breach
While companies focus their fraud prevention efforts on direct third party fraud, they had better be spending some time on mitigating the risks of account takeover. In a year that began with high profile attacks on Sony and email marketing firm Epsilon, ended with hactivist campaigns and posting sensitive information stolen from Stratfor, all while Federal
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Anonymous Continues Holiday Hacking Spree
Hactivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec continue their holiday hacking routine called LulzXmas after stealing sensitive data from SpecialForces.com and Stratfor, a global intelligence firm, and then posting the breached information online. Read More
Anonymous Hacks UN, Threatens Banks
The high profile data breaches continue in 2011 as Anonymous posted 1,000 user names and passwords taken from the United Nations. A hacker was able to access the server containing information for the United Nations Development Programme, the attack may have been just to demonstrate ability or to embarrass the UN as many of the
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