Hackers Take on Amazon’s Twitch Gaming Service, Con Car Accident Victims and Cause ‘Deep Shido’ for Judo Club
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Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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RadioShack Auctions Off Customer Personal Data
Among the assets the bankrupt retailer is selling are the names, email addresses and phone numbers of millions of RadioShack customers.
Amazon-owned Twitch Says It’s Probably Been Hacked
The details are scant at this point. “We are writing to let you know that there may have been unauthorized access to some Twitch user account information,” states a March 23 notice on the service’s website.
The Register: ‘British Judo in Deep Shido after Cyberattack’
Hackers accessed some details on members of the British Judo Association by breaking into the organization’s online application system.
NYPD Officer Bilked Accident Victims He Stalked On Computers
A New York City inspector posed as a lawyer and sold his bogus legal services to car accident victims he found through scraping NYPD computers and installing surveillance video in a police station.