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More than 800,000 accounts compromised in MacRumors Forums breach

More than 800,000 accounts compromised in MacRumors Forums breach | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
About 860,000 members who post on the forums of popular Apple news website MacRumors are being asked to change their passwords after accounts were compromised in a hack.

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#University of Michigan's Union Ticket Office hacked ===> 33k data!!!

#University of Michigan's Union Ticket Office hacked ===> 33k data!!! | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
Hackers accessed the credit card information of tens of thousands customers of the University of Michigans Union Ticket Office, the latest organization that has fallen victim to a breach affecting a thirdparty vendor.

 

Hackers accessed the credit card information of tens of thousands customers of the University of Michigan's Union Ticket Office, the latest organization that has fallen victim to a breach affecting a third-party vendor.

How many victims? More than 33,000.

What type of personal information? Names, street addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers and expiration dates. 

What happened? 

 

The database supplied by third-party ticketing solution provider Vendini was compromised by hackers who may have stolen the personal information of any U of M customer in the last two years.

 

What was the response? University officials have contacted all individuals affected by the breach.

Details: How the hackers were able to compromise the Vendini systems is currently unknown. According toa statement released by the company, the stolen information does not include credit card security access codes, account user names or passwords.


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Gust MEES's curator insight, June 17, 2013 4:46 PM

 

Hackers accessed the credit card information of tens of thousands customers of the University of Michigan's Union Ticket Office, the latest organization that has fallen victim to a breach affecting a third-party vendor.

How many victims? More than 33,000.

What type of personal information? Names, street addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers and expiration dates. 

What happened? The database supplied by third-party ticketing solution provider Vendini was compromised by hackers who may have stolen the personal information of any U of M customer in the last two years.

 

What was the response? University officials have contacted all individuals affected by the breach.

Details: How the hackers were able to compromise the Vendini systems is currently unknown. According to a statement released by the company, the stolen information does not include credit card security access codes, account user names or passwords.

 

Learn more:

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Universities

 

 

 

Gust MEES's curator insight, June 17, 2013 4:50 PM

 

Hackers accessed the credit card information of tens of thousands customers of the University of Michigan's Union Ticket Office, the latest organization that has fallen victim to a breach affecting a third-party vendor.

How many victims? More than 33,000.

What type of personal information? Names, street addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers and expiration dates. 

What happened? The database supplied by third-party ticketing solution provider Vendini was compromised by hackers who may have stolen the personal information of any U of M customer in the last two years.

 

What was the response? University officials have contacted all individuals affected by the breach.

Details: How the hackers were able to compromise the Vendini systems is currently unknown. According to a statement released by the company, the stolen information does not include credit card security access codes, account user names or passwords.

 

Learn more:

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Universities

 

 

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Apple's Development Center Breached by Hackers

Apple's Development Center Breached by Hackers | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
Apple's Dev Center went down on Thursday causing issues for developers around the world. The system remained down for three days and is still currently unavailable.

 

This brings up an interesting question regarding single points of failure in the mobile application distribution system. When one component goes down, or is breached in this case it affects the entire ecosystem.

 

===> We hear a lot about mobile apps and devices being hacked, however as I have stated before that is small potatoes when compared to the treasure trove of the back-end systems that power mobile applications and services. <===

 

What is the point of hacking one person’s phone when there are entire app store infrastructures to target?


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Gust MEES's curator insight, July 21, 2013 8:20 PM

 

===> We hear a lot about mobile apps and devices being hacked, however as I have stated before that is small potatoes when compared to the treasure trove of the back-end systems that power mobile applications and services. <===

 

Learn more:

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security

 

Gust MEES's curator insight, July 21, 2013 8:22 PM

 

===> We hear a lot about mobile apps and devices being hacked, however as I have stated before that is small potatoes when compared to the treasure trove of the back-end systems that power mobile applications and services. <===

 

Learn more:

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security

 

Vivalist's curator insight, July 22, 2013 4:28 AM

going up the network, identify the bottle neck and get at it - pretty simple, but they probably had to sweat a little to do it.

 

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Drupal hit by massive data breach

Drupal hit by massive data breach | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
Drupal, the open source content management system, is resetting the passwords for nearly one million accounts in the wake of a data breach.

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