Thursday, May 8th, 2014
We have reason to believe that Bitly account credentials have been compromised. We have no indication at this time that any accounts have been accessed without permission. For our users’ protection, we have taken proactive steps to ensure the security of all accounts, including disconnecting all users’ Facebook and Twitter ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Nationwide arts and crafts chain Michaels Stores Inc. said today that two separate eight-month-long security breaches at its stores last year may have exposed as many as 3 million customer credit and debit cards.
The disclosure, made jointly in a press release posted online and in a statement on the company’s Web site, offers the first ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
LaCie is the latest major retailer and tech company finding itself to be the target of a major security breach by unknown assailants.
The French hardware company confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that malware successfully made its way through to access sensitive customer information stemming from transactions on its website.
Here's where things ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Hackers posted names, e-mail addresses, message histories, and partially protected login credentials for more than 158,000 forum users of Boxee.tv, the Web-based television service that was acquired by Samsung last year, researchers said.
The breach occurred no later than last week, when a full copy of the purloined forum data became widely ...
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Saturday, February 15th, 2014
On Wednesday night, law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter and alerted us that hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access to some of our customers' data. Upon learning this, we immediately closed the security breach and began strengthening security measures throughout the Kickstarter system.
No credit card data of any kind was accessed ...
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