Author: Caleb Townsend

Microsoft has revealed that a long spanning data breach, affecting information dating as far back as 14 years, has exposed the data of 250 million users. According to a blog post from the Microsoft Security Response Center, they finished an investigation on January 22nd, regarding access misconfiguration for the customer support database. In the blog … Read more

On December 19, 2019, Wawa announced that there was malware on its payment processing server between December 10th and December 12th. This malware affected all of their branches. Now they are announcing that they are aware of multiple attempts to sell customer card information on the dark web. The payment cards were reportedly found on … Read more

Landry’s Inc, the Houston-based parent company of over 600 restaurants, casinos, and hotels across the United States, has released a blog post notice informing their customers of a data breach. Some of the restaurants potentially affected include Atlantic Grill, Bubba Gump Shrimp, Golden Nugget, Mitchell’s Steakhouse, Rainforest Cafe, Strip House, and Dos Caminos. In their … Read more

LifeLabs has revealed that 15 million Canadians may have had their data leaked after a being hit with a cyber-attack in October. LifeLabs is a diagnostics testing company, the largest healthcare laboratory test company in Canada. In a recent blog post, they revealed that most of the victim were in Ontario and British Columbia. The … Read more

Montgomery County Public Schools has suffered a data breach at the hands of a student, compromising the data of nearly 6,000 students. Montgomery has put out a Data Incident Response report informing their student body and surrounding community that the student in question accessed Naviance, an online college and career readiness solution program. Furthermore, a … Read more

Mixcloud, a British online crowd-sourced streaming service, disclosed that 21 million user accounts have been stolen from the site and are being sold on the dark web. According to Vice, the seller, “A_W_S”, is asking for 0.5 in bitcoin, translating to $4,000 dollars for the data. The breach took place earlier this month, though Mixcloud … Read more