Macy’s Customer Payment Info Stolen in Magecart Data Breach
Lawrence Abrams reports: Macy’s has announced that they have suffered a data breach due to their web site being hacked with malicious scripts that steal customer’s payment information. This type of...
View ArticleCourt approves extradition of young hacker to US
Jonathan Shkurko reports: Joshua Epiphaniou will be the first Cypriot to be extradited to the United States after a Nicosia court ruled he should stand trial there, his lawyer Michael Chambers said. He...
View ArticleActivist Leaks Files From a Data Broker for Demoing its Software With ICE
Joseph Cox reports: To protest a data broker giving trial accounts of their product to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, a source has provided Motherboard with internal files of Sayari, a...
View ArticleCn: Credit Rating Firm Kaola Accused of Privacy Breach
Wu Yujian, Zhang Yuzhe and Han Wei report: Kaola Credit, the credit rating service of leading payment company Lakala Payment, was accused of illegally storing and selling users’ personal data for...
View ArticleTarget sues insurer for up to $74 million in 2013 data breach costs
Kavita Kumar reports: Target is suing its longtime insurance company for denying claims to reimburse Target for tens of millions of dollars it has paid out for new payment cards as part of settlements...
View ArticleWeWork Developers Exposed Contracts and Customer Data on GitHub
Joseph Cox reports: WeWork developers exposed customer contracts, some of which contained bank account details, and the personal and contact information of other potential customers to the open...
View ArticleFrench Hotel Giant Leaks 1TB+ of Client Data
Phil Muncaster reports: A leading European hotel booking platform has leaked over 1TB of data on customers, clients and partners thanks to an unsecured Elasticsearch database, exposing them to account...
View ArticleT-Mobile discloses security breach impacting prepaid customers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US branch of telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a security breach today that impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service. The company said its...
View ArticleChurch’s Chicken probes data security breach at company-owned sites
MobilePaymentsToday reports: Church’s Chicken said it is investigating a possible data breach involving credit and debit card information at some of its company owned locations in the U.S., where it...
View ArticleAllied Universal Breached by Maze Ransomware, Stolen Data Leaked
Lawrence Abrams reports: After a deadline was missed for receiving a ransom payment, the group behind Maze Ransomware has published almost 700 MB worth of data and files stolen from security staffing...
View ArticleGoogle Fires Four Employees, Citing Data-Security Violations
Bloomberg reports: Google told staff on Monday that it fired four employees for what the company called “clear and repeated violations” of its data-security policies. Alphabet Inc.’s Google sent an...
View ArticlePemex Communications Still Spotty After Crippling Cyberattack
Amy Stillman reports: Some of Petroleos Mexicanos’s communication systems are still affected two weeks after a cyberattack hit Mexico’s beleaguered state oil firm. For some employees, internet access...
View ArticleSale of 4 Million Stolen Cards Tied to Breaches at 4 Restaurant Chains; Two...
Brian Krebs reports: Two financial industry sources who track payment card fraud and asked to remain anonymous for this story said the four million cards were taken in breaches recently disclosed by...
View ArticleFacebook must face data breach class action on security, but not damages: judge
Jonathan Stempel reports: A federal judge said up to 29 million Facebook Inc (FB.O) users whose personal information was stolen in a September 2018 data breach cannot sue as a group for damages, but...
View ArticleES: Cyber Attack Causes Prosegur Security Company To Shut Down Its Network
Ionut Ilascu reports: In a statement at midday today (local time), Spanish multinational security company Prosegur announced that it was the victim of a cybersecurity incident disrupting its...
View ArticleHackers steal USD 49 million in cryptocurrency from Upbit
ANI reports: South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has confirmed hackers stole about USD 49 million worth of cryptocurrency. Upbit CEO Lee Seok-woo revealed in an official blog post that 342,000...
View ArticleDutch Govt Warns of 3 Ransomware Infecting 1,800 Businesses
Ionut Ilascu reports: A confidential report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the Netherlands informs that at least 1,800 companies are affected by ransomware across the world. The...
View ArticleMixcloud data breach exposes over 20 million user records
Zack Whittaker reports: A data breach at Mixcloud, a U.K.-based audio streaming platform, has left more than 20 million user accounts exposed after the data was put on sale on the dark web. The data...
View ArticleMillions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse
Zack Whittaker reports: A massive database storing tens of millions of SMS text messages, most of which were sent by businesses to potential customers, has been found online. The database is run by...
View ArticleMagecart Hackers Open Fire at Smith & Wesson Customers
Phil Muncaster reports: Digital skimming hackers have been in action again, this time targeting the website of a leading US gun-maker and its customers.c Springfield, Massachusetts-based Smith &...
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