European e-ticketing platform Ticketcounter extorted in data breach
Lawrence Abrams reports: A Dutch e-Ticketing platform has suffered a data breach after a user database containing 1.9 million unique email addresses was stolen from an unsecured staging server....
View ArticleMandiant issues final report on its investigation into Accellion breach
Yesterday, Mandiant issued its final report on its investigation into the Accellion data breach that impacted a number of its big clients including Jones Day law firm, SingTel, Bombardier, Goodwin...
View ArticleRookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO
Sometimes you read a story and think, “Oh. This is just too perfect.” This is one of those times. Dan Goodin reports: Over the weekend, word emerged that a hacker breached far-right social media...
View ArticleSerasa asked for bank passwords and will reveal itself
Leonard Manson reports: The São Paulo Consumer Protection and Defense Program (Procon-SP) notified Serasa on Monday (1st) to provide clarifications on the collection, and possible use, of the internet...
View ArticlePayroll giant PrismHR outage likely caused by ransomware attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Leading payroll company PrismHR is suffering a massive outage after suffering a cyberattack this weekend that looks like a ransomware attack from conversations with customers....
View ArticleThe Accellion breach also impacted Qualys; threat actors start dumping files
As I noted yesterday on Twitter, Qualys was added to threat actor CLOP’s leak site, raising the question as to whether the firm had been an Accellion client. They had. Qualys issued a statement later...
View ArticleData of 580,000 Singapore Airlines customers leaked in SITA security breach
Toh Ting Wei reports: About 580,000 Singapore Airlines (SIA) customers have been affected by a data leak at an external firm. SIA said in a statement yesterday that members of its KrisFlyer and PPS...
View ArticleSpirit Airlines hit by Nefilim ransomware – Report
Marco De Felice reports: In these hours, the ransomware group Nefilim has published on the dark web a first part of data stolen from the American “ultra low cost” company Spirit Airlines. The first...
View ArticleMassive Supply-Chain Cyberattack Breaches Several Airlines
The SITA breach that also impacted 580,000 Singapore Airlines customers is getting more attention as more and more airlines issue statements to their customers. Now my friends are even sending me...
View ArticleAmerican Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association hack impacted more than 161,000
The American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association, a non-profit organization in Virginia that provides insurance and benefits services to the military community, is notifying 161,621 individuals of a...
View ArticleAU: LandMark White data breach trial to put firm under spotlight
Michael Bleby reports the latest developments in the wake of a breach involving Landmark White (now known as Acumentis): ASX-listed valuer LandMark White’s cyber security standards will come under the...
View ArticleSomeone Hacked the Website of the Attorney Representing One of New York Gov....
Colin Kalmbacher reports: The website for attorney Debra Katz, of the law firm of Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP, was hacked and taken offline early Saturday morning. Katz currently represents former...
View ArticleAnother hospital hit by ransomware in France, Spain’s public employment...
Another French hospital, Centre Hospitalier Général d’Oloron, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. France Bleu reports (translation): The Oloron Sainte-Marie hospital (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) was...
View ArticleHackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
William Turton reports: A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000...
View ArticleCity company booked for data theft after complaint from US
Archana More reports: In what may be a first instance for the city, a local company and its director have been booked for data theft on a complaint filed by a foreign national. The Pune cyber police...
View ArticleGerman soccer club Stuttgart fined for data breach
AP reports: German soccer club Stuttgart has been fined 300,000 euros ($357,000) for misusing private data about its members, a regulator said Wednesday. Stuttgart had been accused of passing on data...
View ArticleFacebook’s lawyers blast attorney fees bid in Adkins v. Facebook settlement
Sara Merken reports: Facebook Inc is pushing back on plaintiffs lawyers’ request for nearly $12 million in fees and costs for securing an injunctive relief-only settlement stemming from a 2018...
View ArticleUK: Solicitor caught dumping client files in the street
The SRA has fined a solicitor for dumping rubbish bags containing client information outside his office. Trevor Nicholas Senkatuka was the sole practitioner of the now-defunct firm, Windsor Croft...
View ArticleJP: Unauthorized access occurred in Urban Research; personal information of...
Translation: Urban Research has announced that the official in the online store by the unauthorized access by a third party, personal information of 317,326 persons of all member there is a fear that...
View ArticleCyber attack causes systems outage at Molson Coors
Yesterday, WTMJ reported: Molson Coors was the target of a cyber attack, the company confirmed to WTMJ on Wednesday. The brewery experienced a “systems outage due to a cyber-security incident,”...
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