Author: Maryann Bell

British payday loan company Wonga, provider of short term loans with high interest rates, is said to have fallen into the hands of hackers. The Wonga data breach is affecting the payday loan company’s 250,000 clients in the UK and about 25,000 in Poland. In 2016, such companies as Yahoo, Tumblr, Linkedlin, Daily Motion, and Adult Friend Finder to name a few have experienced data breaches. Names, addresses, emails, telephone numbers including bank details and ethnicity data were compromised. Hackers are still on the rise this 2017 and Wonga is one of those that has been recently affected. Wonga says...

ABTA, the website belonging to the largest travel and trade organization that is responsible for more than $39 billion in vacation sales through their relationships with travel agents and tour operators, has been involved in a data breach that may have impacted as many as 43,000 users. Of those 43,000 users, approximately 13,000 users had personally identifiable information, such as email addresses and phone numbers, stored on the website. In addition, user’s vacation photos and account passwords may have been compromised. ABTA has known about the data breach since February 27th, but only released this information today. ABTA is alerting...

The known spam operator, River City Media, was recently the target of a data breach that resulted in the theft of hundreds of thousands of e-mail addresses and other details that severely hindered some of their operations. As a result, they appear to have switched a number of aliases and retooled their use of social media in an attempt to mitigate any future exposure to such an attack. This incident is being called “Spammergate.” The main takeaway from Spammergate is that, in a cloud-based environment where infrastructure is so distributed and the channels of communication so broad, the compromise of...