UK: Cathay Pacific Airways Limited fined £500,000 for failing to secure its...
From the ICO: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Cathay Pacific Airways Limited £500,000 for failing to protect the security of its customers’ personal data. Between October 2014 and...
View ArticleEpiq’s Ransomware Response Is By The Books, But Dangers Still Lurk
Frank Ready reports: The e-discovery industry may have experienced one its most high-profile cyber incidents over the weekend. Epiq Global confirmed that it had been hit with a ransomware attack,...
View ArticleCasinos in Las Vegas Hit by Suspected Ransomware Attack
Claudia Glover reports: Slot machines in two Las Vegas casinos were out of action for almost a week in an incident that bears all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack. Investigations are currently...
View ArticleData Breach Affects Princess Cruises, Holland America Line Guests
Adam LePosa reports: Princess Cruises and Holland America Line report that a data breach may have compromised employee and guest personal information. According to a statement from both cruise lines,...
View ArticleT-Mobile customers notified of breach
This notice of a T-Mobile breach appears to have been published today, although the notice on the site is undated: Dear Customer, We want to let you know about a sophisticated attack that we recently...
View ArticleUK: Boots Advantage Card hit by cyber attack
Jane Wharton reports: Boots has suspended payments using loyalty card points after a cyber attack on its customer database. Hackers used passwords taken from other websites in an attempt to break into...
View ArticleRyuk ransomware hits Fortune 500 company EMCOR
Catalin Cimpanu reports: EMCOR Group (NYSE: EME), a US-based Fortune 500 company specialized in engineering and industrial construction services, disclosed last month a ransomware incident that took...
View ArticleMalta-based crypto-fund suffers data breach; 10K user records affected
Namrata Shukla reports: The world of cryptocurrencies is not new to the concept of a hack. However, a data breach isn’t heard of as much. Malta today reported the first case of privacy breach wherein...
View ArticleAlleged Russian hacker on trial Monday for 2012 LinkedIn, Dropbox hacks
Laura Hautala reports: Everyone makes cybersecurity mistakes. Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian national accused of some of the biggest hacks in recent history, is no exception, prosecutors say. Nikulin...
View Article266,000 Passwords Stolen in Trident Crypto Fund Data Breach
Sarah Coble reports: A major data breach has occurred at Trident Crypto Fund, resulting in the publication of over a quarter of a million customer usernames and passwords online. According to a report...
View ArticleIsraeli spyware company accused of WhatsApp hack: Facebook lied in lawsuit
Tal Shahaf of Reuters reports: A fierce legal battle between Facebook and Israeli cyber security firm NSO ramped up this week with the latter telling a California court that the social media giant lied...
View ArticleBrazil: Millions of Records Leaked, Including Biometric Data
Jim Wilson reports: The security research team at Safety Detectives has discovered a significant data leak in addition to other security flaws (such as lack of password protection) relating to...
View ArticleAnonymous secret sharing app Whisper left sensitive profile data exposed for...
Nick Statt reports: Whisper, an anonymous secret-sharing mobile app that rose to prominence more than half a decade ago, has been inadvertently exposing sensitive information about its users for years...
View ArticleCyber hackers demand $30m from ‘major international company’ with office in...
Daniel Newell reports: A global company with an office in Perth has been attacked by hackers who are demanding a $30 million ransom to unlock its computer system in Australia. Consumer Protection WA...
View ArticleCard data from breached Volusion platform shows up on dark web
Payment card data stolen from an e-commerce platform last year has already netted criminals $1.6 million in card data sales on the dark web. And according to a new report out today, that’s just from...
View ArticleEuropean electricity association warns of office network breach
Steve Ranger reports: An association of European electricity companies has confirmed that hackers have breached its office network. “ENTSO-E has recently found evidence of a successful cyber intrusion...
View ArticleLinkedIn Appeals Important CFAA Ruling Regarding Scraping Public Info Just As...
Mike Masnick writes: Last fall we were happy to see the 9th Circuit rule against LinkedIn in its CFAA case against HiQ. If you don’t recall, the CFAA is the “anti-hacking” law that has been widely...
View ArticleZA: Eskom’s IT systems still slow after data centre ‘incident’
ITWeb reports: Power utility Eskom’s IT systems are still slow after the parastatal suffered a data centre “incident” last week. The embattled power utility last week announced it had experienced an...
View ArticleKoodo Mobile’s Data Breach Notification: Customer Accounts and Data Sold on...
Security Magazine reports: Koodo Mobile, a Canadian mobile flanker brand started by Telus in 2008, has announced customer data has been breached and is now being sold on various Dark Web websites....
View ArticleHackers hit NutriBullet website with credit card-stealing malware
Zack Whittaker reports: Magecart hackers have struck again, this time targeting the NutriBullet website. According to new research by security firm RiskIQ, hackers broke into the blender maker’s...
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