Dutch man gets two years in prison for hijacking 13,762 online store accounts
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Dutch man was sentenced last week to 27 months in prison and a €10,000 ($11,800) fine for breaking into 13,762 accounts at Dutch online stores. The man, a 27-year-old from...
View ArticleNorth Korean Hackers Threatened Bithumb Exchange With a $16M Ransom Amid the...
Felipe Erazo reports: A new report commissioned by the U.S. secret services unveiled what happened behind the attack launched by North Korean hackers against a South Korean crypto exchange. The case is...
View ArticleWhat Really Caused Facebook’s 500M-User Data Leak?
Lily Hay Newman reports: Since Saturday, a massive trove of Facebook data has circulated publicly, splashing information from roughly 533 million Facebook users across the internet. The data includes...
View ArticleHong Kong’s privacy watchdog checking whether city residents exposed in...
The 500m Facebook leak is not the only 500m leak in the news this past week. There’s also a leak allegedly involving LinkedIn, and now regulators are also looking into that one, too. Danny Mok...
View ArticleAT: Nah&Frisch Wieser Türnitz hit by ransomware attack
Gila Wohlmann reports (translation): “Due to cyberattacks and blackmail, we will probably be closed from Wednesday, April 7th.” This note has been hanging on Georg Wieser’s Türnitzer “Nah & Frisch”...
View ArticleProctor-U agrees to security audit thanks to inquiries by Senator Wyden
Sean Lyngaas reports: A company whose software has been widely used to administer law school entrance exams during the coronavirus pandemic has agreed to an independent audit of the software after a...
View ArticleDutch transport company Bakker Logistiek impacted by ransomware attack
Omroep Flevoland reports: (Translation): Transport company Bakker Logistiek from Zeewolde was hacked last weekend, as a result of which the company can drive fewer loads than normal. The automation...
View ArticleRansomware attacks: Ansal fears data loss
PTI reports: Realty firm Ansal Housing on Friday said that the company had faced multiple ransomware attacks on its IT system since February 26, which may have resulted in some data loss. The e-mail...
View ArticleNo password required: Mobile carrier exposes data for millions of accounts
Dan Goodin reports: Q Link Wireless, a provider of low-cost mobile phone and data services to 2 million US-based customers, has been making sensitive account data available to anyone who knows a valid...
View ArticleCyber Breach Disclosures Still Take More Than a Month
Vincent Ryan reports: After being discovered, cybersecurity breaches are not consistently disclosed promptly, found an Audit Analytics study of public companies released on Friday. On average, publicly...
View ArticleSG: Possible data breach involving 62,000 e-mails sent to Certis
Kenny Chee reports: About 62,000 e-mails from the public, businesses and customers of local security firm Certis, some containing NRIC and credit card numbers, may have been accessed by cyber...
View ArticleBr: Leak exposes 1.7 TB of customer data from Brazilian fintech iugu
Felipe Demartini reports (translation): A serious security breach exposed the information of, it is believed, all customers of the iugu services company, which operates in Brazil through financial...
View ArticleClubhouse data leak: 1.3 million scraped user records leaked online for free
CyberNews reports: So far, it seems like it’s been the worst week of the year for social media platforms in terms of data leaks, with Clubhouse seemingly joining the fray. Days after scraped data from...
View ArticleUpstox alerts users of data breach; says funds, securities remain safe
PTI reports: Retail broking firm Upstox has alerted customers of a security breach that included contact data and KYC details of customers, but assured users that their funds and securities remain...
View ArticleIT: Gino Group car dealership notifies customers of ransomware attack
Matteo Borgetto reports (translation): «Dear Customer, on 7 April 2021 we unfortunately discovered that our systems had been attacked by unknown hackers. We therefore immediately appointed a...
View Article‘This was not a breach’: How Big Tech gaslights the world on data leaks
Vincent Manancourt and Laurens Cerulus report: First Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Now Clubhouse. After data on a combined billion Facebook and LinkedIn users appeared online last week, reports surfaced...
View ArticleUK: Arup staff hit by cyberhacker attack at payroll provider
This one had first been reported on April 7 by Richard Waite: Engineering and architecture giant Arup has become the latest victim of a ransomware cyber attack […] According to data breach specialist...
View ArticleJP: Capcom confirms no credit card information was accessed during ransomware...
Marie Dealessandri has an update to a ransomware incident involving Japanese gaming giant Capcom that was reported last year. The firm published its fourth update and a very detailed one. As...
View ArticleParkMobile Breach Exposes License Plate Data, Mobile Numbers of 21M Users
Brian Krebs reports: Someone is selling account information for 21 million customers of ParkMobile, a mobile parking app that’s popular in North America. The stolen data includes customer email...
View ArticleCZ: Asbis hit by ransomware, working to recover
Matěj Čuchna reports (translation): The Czech branch of Asbis is recovering from a ransomware attack in which data was stolen and internal systems were paralyzed. The ransomware attack was carried out...
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