Chinese Military Personnel Charged with Computer Fraud, Economic Espionage...
Statement by the U.S. Department of Justice today: A federal grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment last week charging four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with hacking into...
View ArticleEstee Lauder Exposed 440 Million Records Online – Researchers
Jeremiah Fowler reports (typos are in the original): On January 30th I discovered a non-password protected database that contained a massive amount of records totaling 440,336,852. Upon further review...
View ArticleUK: RideLondon organisers apologise after data breach
BBC reports: Organisers of the RideLondon cycling event are “urgently looking into” a data breach involving potential participants’ personal details. It is unclear how many applicants have been...
View ArticleData breach exposes Altice employee, Optimum customer information
James T. Madore reports: A data breach at Altice USA Inc. has exposed the Social Security numbers, birth dates and other personal information of all 12,000 current employees as well as some former...
View ArticleRussian court fines Facebook $63,000 over data law breach – RIA
Reuters reports: A Russian court fined social media company Facebook 4 million roubles ($62,922) on Thursday for its failure to comply with a Russian data law, the RIA news agency reported. The...
View ArticlePA: Rutter’s data breach impacted at least 70 Pennsylvania stores
Tom Nguyen reports: Rutter’s released a statement on their website Thursday saying numerous locations were victim to a data breach that allowed a third-party access to customers’ credit cards from Oct....
View ArticleRelation Insurance Discloses Data Security Incident
The following is part of Relation Insurance’s disclosure notice, published February 13 on their site: What Happened? Relation Insurance Inc. (“Relation”) provides insurance brokerage services working...
View ArticleWV: Charleston Lube Partners, LLC Provides Notice of a Payment Card Security...
Via PR Newswire: Charleston Lube Partners, LLC, the independent owner and operator of Quaker Steak & Lube®, Charleston, West Virginia (“restaurant”), provides notice of an event that may affect the...
View ArticleToll admits some customers still suffering delays on day 18 of ransomware attack
Chris Keall reports that some of Toll’s customers are still suffering delays 18 days after it was hit by a ransomware attack. On February 5, Sergiu Gatlan had reported that the Australian...
View ArticleIranian hackers have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies...
Catalin Cimpanu reports: 2019 will be remembered as the year when major security bugs were disclosed in a large number of enterprise VPN servers, such as those sold by Pulse Secure, Palo Alto Networks,...
View ArticleSwiss info security body warns of ransomware attacks against businesses
Maria Nikolova reports: Switzerland’s Reporting and Analysis Centre for Information Assurance (MELANI) today issued a warning regarding a high number of ransomware attacks against Swiss businesses over...
View ArticleHackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
Brian Krebs reports: Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on...
View ArticleA ‘stalkerware’ app leaked phone data from thousands of victims
Zack Whittaker reports: A spyware app designed to “monitor everything” on a victim’s phone has been secretly installed on thousands of phones. The app, KidsGuard, claims it can “access all the...
View ArticleHousehold Names: How Tetrad Exposed Data on 120 Million Consumers
From UpGuard: The UpGuard Research team can now disclose that a collection of data sets detailing the purchasing habits and consumer behavior profiles of virtually every American household has been...
View ArticleISS World “malware attack” leaves employees offline
Naked Security reports: Global facilities company ISS World, headquartered in Denmark, has shuttered most of its computer systems worldwide after suffering what it describes as a “security incident...
View ArticleMajor Japanese Defense Contractors Admit to Data Breach Incidents Dating Back...
Scott Ikeda reports: Two more major Japanese defense contractors admitted to experiencing a data breach in recent years, bringing to a close a story that began in January when Japanese defense minister...
View ArticleCeleb Shout-Out App Cameo Exposes Private Videos and User Data
Joseph Cox reports: Cameo, the increasingly popular app for paying celebrities to record short personal videos, exposed a wealth of user data including email addresses, hashed and salted passwords and...
View ArticleSlickwraps Suffered a Massive Data Breach (Updated: Yep)
Kellen writes: Ummm, if you are a Slickwraps customer, you might see an email arrive this morning that claims the company has been hacked. The email might not be lying to you either, as this does not...
View ArticleEndeavor Energy Resources notifies employees and dependents after employee...
Statement from Endeavor Energy Resources (via MRT): “Endeavor Energy Resources, L.P. (“Endeavor”), an oil and gas exploration and production company, discovered on Jan. 14 that earlier that day an...
View ArticleLawsuit filed against MGM Resorts International over data breach
From the this-is-my-shocked-face department. Lucas Wright reports: A lawsuit has been filed against MGM Resorts, following the news that the company experienced a data breach last summer. Florida law...
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