Category: scraping

Over 267 million Facebook users reportedly had data exposed online

Post author By Randall
Post date December 19, 2019
Categories In bob diachenko, breach, comparitech, Data Privacy, database, exposed, Facebook, gear, Hack, Internet, names, phone numbers, Privacy, records, scraping, Security, security researcher, Tech, unsecured, user id

[ad_1] Dianchenko says he reported the database to the service provider managing the IP address of the server, but the database was exposed for nearly two weeks. In the meantime, he says, the data was posted as a download in a hacker forum. That’s a lot of personal data to be floating around in the […]

Visa warns that hackers are scraping card details at gas pumps

Post author By Randall
Post date December 16, 2019
Categories In cybercrime, gas stations, gear, point of sale, pos malware, scraping, Security, Tech, visa

[ad_1] The hack doesn’t appear to affect more security chip-and-pin cards, but not all consumers have those, so service stations often work with mag stripe readers, too. The data is apparently sent in an unencrypted form to the vendor’s main network, where the thieves have figured out how to intercept it. The other problem is […]