Commission Kings’ Brands Suffer Cyber-Attack Outage
Michael Cox reports: Commission Kings, one of the largest affiliate networks catering to a global sports betting and iGaming audience, has come under a heavy cyber-attack. The attack began on Friday,...
View ArticleCourts fined $9,000 for second data breach in two years
No — it’s not the judiciary, but an electronics retailed in Singapore named Courts. Lester Wong reports: Electronics retailer Courts has been fined $9,000 for failing to secure customers’ personal...
View ArticleProbe ordered after phone data theft
Yiannis Souliotis reports: The telephone data of thousands of Greek citizens have reportedly been stolen in a massive hacking operation that took place from September 1 to 5 through the OTE...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble confirms cyberattack, ransomware group leaks allegedly stolen...
There’s an update to the B&N attack noted last week. Lawrence Abrams reports that the bookseller has confirmed that they were the victim of an attack on October 10 and that the Egregor ransomware...
View ArticleTwitter-Owned SDK Leaking Location Data of Millions of Users
Joseph Cox reports: A series of popular apps using an outdated piece of code owned by Twitter are exposing their users’ location data. In total, the apps have been downloaded nearly 10 million times....
View ArticleRecent Closing of Three Tribal Casinos Provides Cyberattack Lessons
Ed Silverstein reports: Two Idaho tribal casinos and one California casino have temporarily closed following a cyberattack. This is relatively unusual, but other gaming properties should prepare for...
View ArticleRobo-advice firm suffers data breach
Cristian Angeloni reports: Germany-headquartered online advisory firm Scalable Capital has fallen victim to a data leak. According to local newspaper Merkur, the fintech company has suffered a “data...
View ArticleAnother REvil attack creates havoc for the Caribbean’s biggest conglomerate
Carla Bridglal reports: The Caribbean’s biggest conglomerate, Ansa McAl, is the victim of ransomware hackers holding some of the company’s IT systems hostage. Newsday understands that work at Tatil,...
View ArticleSopra Steria falls victim to ransomware attack
FinExtra reports: European IT services group Sopra Steria is battling a suspected ransomware attack on its network. The firm, whose biggest customers in the financial sector include include Société...
View ArticleScalable Capital sees large data breach
Daniel Lanyon reports: Digital wealth manger Scalable notified customers of a large data breach on Monday evening. Scalable said in a message to customers, seen by AltFi, that personal data was...
View ArticleData on 2,750 partner firms of Japan Post unit leaked
Oops! JIJI reports: A computer file containing data on 2,750 business partners of a unit of Japan Post Co. has been leaked, the parent company said Tuesday. On Oct. 6, an employee of the Tokyo-based...
View ArticleJapanese drug firm Shionogi hit by cyberattack and data breach
Kyodo News reports: Japanese pharmaceutical firm Shionogi & Co. said Thursday that its Taiwanese subsidiary was hit by a cyberattack earlier this month leading to a data breach, although no...
View ArticleInsider Threat: Vengeful Former Century 21 Employee Charged with Alleged...
October 21 – Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr., today announced the indictment of HECTOR NAVARRO, 30, a former Human Resources systems administrator at Century 21’s Manhattan department store,...
View ArticleInsider Threat: Former employee of medical packaging company sentenced to...
Christopher Dobbins has been sentenced to federal prison for hacking his former employer and sabotaging their electronic shipping records, causing more than $200,000 in damage and delaying the shipment...
View ArticleWastedLocker ransomware hits Boyne Resorts ski resort operator
Lawrence Abrams reports: US-based ski and golf resort operator Boyne Resorts has suffered a cyberattack by the WastedLocker operation that has impacted company-wide reservation systems. Of special...
View ArticlePress Trust of India services disrupted by LockBit ransomware attack
Business Line reports: The Press Trust of India’s computer servers suffered a massive ransomware attack, disrupting operations and the delivery of news to hundreds of subscribers across India for...
View ArticleAnother Noida sweets manufacturer attacked by ransomware
Tanmayee Tyagi reports: Merely a month after Haldiram Snacks Private Limited corporate office in Noida suffered a ransomware attack, the servers of another Noida-based sweets manufacturing company were...
View ArticleAmazon sacks insiders over data leak, alerts customers
Ax Sharma reports: Amazon has recently terminated employees responsible for leaking customer data, including their email addresses, to an unaffiliated third-party in violation of company policies. The...
View ArticleEnel Group, cyber attack: NetWalker is ready to publish the first data
Marco A. De Felice aka @amvinfe writes: The NetWalker Ransomware Group gives the Enel Group seven days to pay the ransom and get back 4.54 TB of data stolen during the cyber attack last June. In a note...
View ArticleAs international travel services re-open, fraudsters resume
When COVID-19 travel restrictions eased as countries tried to re-open borders to travelers, researchers at Gemini Advisory observed that the sale of travel services — both legal and illegal — started...
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