NL: Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie (KNWU) reports a data breach of...
As seen on KNWU: November 27, 2020 We regret to report that a data hack has taken place in our old MijnKNWU environment. It is no longer in use for the public since the beginning of this year, but was...
View ArticleWhiteHat Jr faces security breach exposing personal data
InfoTechLead reports: WhiteHat Jr, BYJU’S-owned online coding platform, has fixed a cyber security issue after exposing personal data of over 2.8 lakh students and teachers due to multiple...
View ArticleCadwalader and Bar Groups Among Latest to Report Data Breach Incidents
Andrew Maloney reports: In an era of remote work, big bar groups and large law firms continue to see a spate of data breaches and cybersecurity attacks. The New York City Bar Association and the...
View ArticleHackers calling themselves “Black Shadow” breach Israeli insurance company,...
Stuart Winer reports: Hackers targeting an Israeli insurance company claimed to have made off with a vast hoard of personal data on its clients, many of whom are civil servants. In a joint statement...
View ArticleLA: Stuller Hit by Cyberattack
James Ritchie reports: Stuller Inc. was hit by a cyberattack Saturday morning, resulting in “a variety of operational issues.” “Since our discovery of the cyber-attack, we have worked around the clock...
View ArticleBrazil planemaker Embraer says hackers gained access to company data
Reuters reports: Brazilian plane manufacturer Embraer said late on Monday that it had been targeted by hackers, who obtained the “disclosure of data allegedly attributed to the company.” The company...
View ArticleAU: Australia’s largest cryptocurrency exchange accidentally exposed the...
Cam Wilson reports that an old-fashioned email goof by BTC Markets exposed members’ names and email addresses: Early on Tuesday morning, an Australian cryptocurrency exchange that bills itself as the...
View Article‘Apodis Pharma’ Leaked Over 1.7 TB of Confidential Data Online
Bill Toulas reports: The French digital supply chain management and software solutions provider ‘Apodis Pharma’ has misconfigured an ElasticSearch database for public access, essentially leaking over...
View ArticleIntersport victim of cyberattack for a second time in 2020?
First it was a Magecart attack on their web sites in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina and Montenegro, as reported in June. Now it appears to be a ransomware attack by Conti threat...
View ArticleCa: Class action suit launched against Dell after data breach led to years of...
David Paddon reports: A proposed class action suit has been launched against Dell Technologies on behalf of thousands of Canadians whose personal information was compromised in a data breach. According...
View ArticleBelgium: Belgian DPA announces potential data breach at Bpost
OneTrust DataGuidance writes: The Belgian Data Protection Authority (‘Belgian DPA’) announced, on 1 December 2020, that it had learned of a potential security incident at Bpost through media articles....
View ArticleHacker who stole information from Nintendo sentenced
AP reports: A computer hacker who stole information from Nintendo and was also caught with child pornography on his computer was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison. Ryan S. Hernandez, 21, of...
View ArticleVerizon has been leaking customers’ personal information for days (at least)
Dan Goodin reports: Verizon is struggling to fix a glitch that has been leaking customers’ addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, and other personal information through a chat system that helps...
View ArticleWhy Did Instagram Leak Minors’ Email Addresses Again?
Jeremy Kirk reports: David Stier, a San Francisco-based data scientist, has uncovered situations in which Facebook’s Instagram service exposed the contact details of minors, such as email addresses and...
View ArticleHacker attack blocks Eurolls; accessed via remote worker’s PC
With apologies to reporter Alessia Valentini, because this is not a great translation: The Eurolls company was the victim of a hacker attack which, by exploiting the smart working condition of one of...
View Article‘Be a mensch’: Hackers leak negotiation texts as Israeli insurer refuses ransom
TOI reports: Hackers published sensitive client information stolen from Shirbit Insurance after the company refused on Friday to pay the approximately $1 million ransom demanded. The information...
View ArticleKmart nationwide retailer suffers a ransomware attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: US department store Kmart has suffered a ransomware attack that impacts back-end services at the company, BleepingComputer has learned. […] BleepingComputer has learned that...
View ArticleTwitter data breach decision due on December 17: Irish data regulator
Samuel Stolton reports: Despite “very divergent views” between EU data protection authorities over a case of data breaches by Twitter, a final decision on the bloc’s first major cross-border online...
View ArticleIT: Radio Azzurra hit by cyberattack, ransom demand
Luca Mattioli reports (translated): Yes, the virus has also hit… “Radio Azzurra”. We are certainly not talking about Covid, but much more simply – so to speak – of a real cyber attack that the historic...
View ArticleUK: Probe into data breach at Highland Perthshire resort after details of...
Jamie Buchan reports: Bosses at a Perthshire holiday resort have been accused of an “inexcusable” security breach after posting the personal emails and phone numbers of more than 2,400 members on their...
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