![]() ![]() Some 200,000 customers in the US who had paid Comcast to keep their numbers private now have a bone to pick with the cable giant after it inadvertently make the numbers public on its Ecolisting director service for months last year.Ĭomcast is said to be offering the exposed customers $100m worth of credits. "A third of the findings are high severity, another third medium severity, and the remainder a combination of low, undetermined, and informational severity." Comcast leaks 'unlisted' phone numbers "Our security review resulted in seventy-nine (79) findings," the biz reported. We reached out to Vimeo, and the service said it believes Smith, like others, may have been infected with malware that was targeting Vimeo accounts in particular. This was unusual as Smith said the account was not connected to any other service, and used a unique randomly-generated password, ruling out a credential-stuffing attack and third-party data leak. Register reader David Smith told us that he received a notification from Vimeo that his account had been accessed by a stranger and frozen. Video sharing site Vimeo believes a malware infection has targeted some of its user accounts for theft. The IRS's chief crime-fighter Don Fort described the site's contents as "the most disgusting I’ve encountered in 30 years of law enforcement." Vimeo says account info taken from infected user PCs It was the latter of those two methods that eventually led Homeland Security and IRS investigators and police in Europe to Mr Dark and his operation, it is claimed. ![]() Cryptocurrency led cops to alleged mastermind of sexual-assault web exchangeĭutch citizen Michael Rahim Mohammad, 32, has been charged with owning and operating Dark Scandals, a public-facing and Tor-hidden website through which warped netizens shared 2,000 videos of adults being raped, child sexual abuse, and similar assaults.Īccording to prosecutors in a federal district court in the US capital, Mohammad, aka Mr Dark, required his customers to produce and upload their own sickening videos before being granted access to the dark-web site, or by transferring money to a cryptocurrency address Mohammad controlled. The intruders swiped, from staff email accounts no less, customer info including names and addresses Social Security numbers government-issued ID, such as passport numbers and driver’s license numbers credit card and financial account information and health-related information. Hackers raid coronavirus-hit cruise operator, lift people's personal dataĬarnival, operator of coronavirus-hit Princess Cruises as well as the Holland America Line, admitted this month it was hacked between April and July last year. It's time for another Reg roundup of security news you may have missed. ![]() Roundup We hope everyone is staying healthy and safe. ![]()
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