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UPDATE VTech, a company that manufactures electronic learning devices, baby monitors, toys, and other equipment, announced Monday that information from five million customer accounts, which include identity information belonging to children, were accessed in an attack earlier this month. The news follows up a statement from the company late last week that attackers had infiltrated one of...
Travelers who stayed at either a Westin, Sheraton, or W hotel over the last year or so are going to want to check their bank statements sooner rather than later. Starwood Hotels and Resorts, a company that owns and operates approximately 1,200 hotels across North America, including the aforementioned brands, announced last week that a handful...
Information on nearly 14 million users of 000webhost, a Lithuanian web hosting service, was spilled earlier this year when a hacker exploited an old version of the company’s website and gained access to the backend. 13.5 million customer usernames, plaintext passwords, email addresses, IP addresses, and names were exposed as part of the breach, according...
The financial information firm Dow Jones & Company announced late last week that it’s the latest in an exhaustive list of companies this year to report a data breach. The News Corp.-owned company informed customers Friday that hackers managed to infiltrate their system in an apparent attempt to gather contact information on current and former...
Discount brokerage firm Scottrade began firing off emails late last week, warning customers that as a result of a breach, their names and street addresses may have been stolen from its system. Scottrade’s statement on the incident, published on its site last Thursday doesn’t exactly rule out that more sensitive information, such as users’ Social Security...
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news–the latest Gatekeeper bypass in OS X, Stagefright 2.0, that accidental Windows Update, and Apple’s new privacy initiative. Download: news_wrap_10-2-15.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves