UK: Motor industry employee sentenced in ICO Computer Misuse Act prosecution
A motor industry employee has been sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, in a prosecution brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Kim Doyle, who worked for...
View ArticleRansomware attack hits short line rail operator OmniTRAX
Nate Tabak reports: Colorado-based short line rail operator and logistics provider OmniTRAX was hit by a recent ransomware attack and data theft that targeted its corporate parent, Broe Group. OmniTRAX...
View ArticleOH: Court dates set in Middletown skydiving data theft case
Ed Richter reports: One former Middletown city employee has been arraigned on charges in Middletown Municipal Court in connection with the alleged hacking, corporate economic espionage and illegal...
View ArticleFrom the frying pan into the fire: Thai business angers hackers
DataBreaches.net seems to be the only site willing to report on certain breaches in Thailand these days. First it was the hack of Country Group Securities (CGSEC) by hackers calling themselves...
View ArticleChinese start-up leaked 400GB of scraped data exposing 200+ million Facebook,...
Jim Wilson of Safety Detectives reports: High-flying and rapidly growing Chinese social media management company Socialarks has suffered a huge data leak leading to the exposure of over 400GB of...
View ArticleRansom demanded after AKVA group victim of ransomware attack
SalmonBusiness reports: On Monday morning, it was announced that the aquaculture equipment manufacturer on Sunday was hit by an extensive cyber attack. AKVA group CEO Knut Nesse told the newspaper...
View ArticleParler Is Gone, But Hackers Say They Downloaded Everything First
David Gilbert reports: Right-wing social network Parler was taken offline in the early hours of Monday morning, but not before a hacker found a way to download all data posted by users — including...
View ArticleKaspersky Lab autopsies evidence on SolarWinds hack
Gareth Corfield reports: Kaspersky Lab reckons the SolarWinds hackers may have hailed from the Turla malware group, itself linked to Russia’s FSB security service. Referring to the hidden backdoor...
View ArticleNetworking giant Ubiquiti alerts customers of potential data breach
Lawrence Abrams reports: Networking device maker Ubiquiti has announced a security incident that may have exposed its customers’ data. Ubiquiti is a very popular networking device manufacturer best...
View ArticleEx-SoftBank engineer held for 5G trade secret theft
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday arrested a former engineer of SoftBank Corp. on suspicion of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Law by illegally...
View ArticleEneco warns customers for data breach: ‘Change your password, personal data...
The following is a translation of an alert on Opgelicht?! Energy supplier Eneco is warning (former) customers of a possible data breach: they have established that cyber criminals have managed to gain...
View ArticleSolarLeaks site claims to sell data stolen in SolarWinds attacks
Yesterday, an individual or individuals claimed that they were selling information stolen from companies known to have been compromised by the SolarWinds attack. But was the offer real or is it a scam?...
View ArticleEmail security firm Mimecast says hackers hijacked its products to spy on...
Reuters reports: Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers. The company said it had been alerted to the attack by...
View ArticleNational Board of Certified Counselors, Inc. – Notice of Data Breach
The National Board for Certified Counselors (“NBCC”) today is providing information about a recent event that may impact the privacy of some personal data related to individuals associated with NBCC....
View ArticleSolarWinds Says It Has Found Source of Massive Cyberattack
M. Corey Goldman reports: Security software provider SolarWinds (SWI) – Get Report revealed Tuesday that it has found the source of a highly sophisticated malicious code injection that it believes was...
View ArticleUltrapar, attacked on Monday, operates under a contingency regime
CISO Advisor reports (translation): Ultrapar, the parent company of Grupo Ultra, sent CVM today a communication of relevant fact to report a cyber incident. The company says that yesterday it was...
View ArticleCa: Confidential data stolen from Promutuel ends up online
Natasha Kumar reports: A gang of cyber hackers posted on the dark web confidential documents from Promutuel Insurance. The company, which has around 630,000 customers, is still paralyzed a month after...
View ArticleTh: 3BB hackers dump customer data, Thai regulator seeks answers from businesses
It took a little time, but Thai news outlets or blogs are starting to headline some of the Thai hacks that previously were only being reported on DataBreaches.net. There have been new developments in...
View ArticleNational Detergent Company in Oman Hit by Cyberattack
An Omani company has been exposed to a cyber attack which resulted in loss of some of its data. In a disclosure published by the Muscat Securities Market said: “The National Detergent company want to...
View ArticlePolish DPA fines Virgin Mobile Polska €460,000: Incidental safeguards review...
The President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) imposed a fine of PLN 1.9 million (EUR 460,000) on Virgin Mobile Polska for the lack of implemented appropriate technical and organisational...
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