Merck cyberattack’s $1.3 billion question: Was it an act of war?
Riley Griffin of Bloomberg reports: By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are...
View ArticleA Sprint contractor left thousands of US cell phone bills on the internet by...
Zack Whittaker reports: A contractor working for cell giant Sprint stored on an unprotected cloud server hundreds of thousands of cell phone bills of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile subscribers. […]...
View ArticleRansomware attack hits major US data center provider
Catalin Cimpanu reports: CyrusOne, one of the biggest data center providers in the US, has suffered a ransomware attack, ZDNet has learned. CyrusOne is currently working with law enforcement and...
View ArticleBug bounty firm HackerOne suffers ‘sloppy cut-and-paste’ breach
Eva Short reports: … in an ironic turn of fortunes for the firm, HackerOne has now paid out a $20,000 bounty for the identification of a bug on its own platform. The hacker in question, user...
View ArticleBMW and Hyundai hacked by Vietnamese hackers, report claims
Catalin Cimpanu reports: German media is reporting that hackers suspected to have ties to the Vietnamese government have breached the networks of two car manufacturers, namely BMW and Hyundai. The...
View ArticleIndian Airtel: Bug meant users’ personal data was found not secure
Shadab Nazmi reports: A bug had been found in India’s third largest mobile network which could have exposed the personal data of more than 300 million users. The flaw, discovered in the Application...
View ArticleBJP leader Kanna Lakshmi Narayana demands arrest of IT Grids chief in data...
Express News Service reports: VIJAYAWADA: BJP State president Kanna Lakshmi Narayana has shot off a letter to Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy demanding that the chief of IT Grids India Pvt Ltd, D...
View ArticleIt’s not just state actors going after automotive companies: “DarkSly” claims...
On December 6, Catalin Cimpanu of ZDNet reported that both BMW and Hyundai had reportedly been hacked. His report was based on reporting by Von Hakan Tanriverdi and Josef Streule that had been...
View ArticleRansomware Writes Drama at Shakespeare Theatre
Lawrence Abrams reports: A ransomware attack over the weekend has taken down the ticketing system and patron database for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and has also affected at least one other...
View ArticlePublic Relations: How a Marketing & PR Platform Exposed Thousands of Users
The UpGuard research team reports: The UpGuard Research team can now disclose that a data collection originating from iPR Software (risk score: 683) containing details of 477,000 media contacts,...
View ArticleHelix IPTV: Hackers Threaten to Expose Resellers & Customers
Andy writes: Popular ‘pirate’ IPTV provider Helix Hosting appears to be facing a crisis after someone claiming to be a hacker posted a message on the service’s homepage. According to the statement,...
View ArticleIndiana objects to proposed Equifax data breach settlement
According to Bloomberg Law, Indiana has filed an objection to the proposed Equifax data breach settlement. The state wants the language of the settlement changed to exclude further actions by state...
View ArticleBiggest data leaks of 2019 that hit Indians
Prabhjote Gill provides a recap of some of the biggest breaches and data leaks affecting Indian residents in 2019. You can read her report on Business Insider. It’s a by-the-numbers type of analysis,...
View ArticleApple has ‘deep concerns’ that ex-employees accused of theft will flee to China
Stephen Nelling Apple Inc on Monday told a federal court it has “deep concerns” that two Chinese-born former employees accused of stealing trade secrets from the company will try to flee before their...
View ArticleOn the notification warpath, Friday edition
In 2006, I started advocating that there needs to be a law or regulation that requires businesses to have a method to receive notifications of security alerts. A number of people I respect offered...
View ArticleThief Stole Payroll Data for Thousands of Facebook Employees
Kurt Wagner reports: Personal banking information for tens of thousands of Facebook Inc. workers in the U.S. was compromised last month when a thief stole several corporate hard drives from an...
View ArticleAG Josh Shapiro reaches settlement with Expedia and Orbitz in 2018 data breach
Valeria de Leon reports: Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced on Friday, he reached a settlement with two online travel reservation companies after they potentially exposed information of thousands...
View ArticleLove, Bonito apologises to customers after personal data breach
CNA reports: SINGAPORE: Some Love, Bonito customers may have had their personal data leaked after a “malicious code” was found on the retailer’s e-commerce website. In an e-mail sent out to customers...
View ArticleAlectra confirms no data breach as originally reported by the City of Hamilton
Don Mitchell reports: Alectra Utilities says an investigation has turned up “no breach of customer information” as originally reported by the City of Hamilton in a statement released on Wednesday. In...
View ArticleTicketmaster data breach victims make bid for Swift justice
Pavel Barter reports: Several legal cases have been filed in the Irish courts against Ticketmaster Ireland, following a 2018 data breach in which the personal and payment information of customers may...
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