De: Hidden crypto farm in Frankfurt restaurant exposed
Hessenchau reports: During hygiene checks in a Frankfurt restaurant, investigators came across a suspected crypto farm. This is not only illegal, but also dangerous in this case: the computers were...
View ArticleConvenience Store Chain Can’t Shield Investigative Report on Data Breach From...
We often hear of firms having their counsel running incident response and contracting of forensics, etc., so that any reports would be protected by work product doctrine as well as attorney-client...
View ArticleWhen Ransomware Group REvil Vanished, Its Victims Were Stranded
While Kaseya clients and their clients got some welcome help in the past few days when Kaseya announced that they had a universal decryptor go give clients — a decryptor that they claim they did not...
View ArticleUber found to have breached Australian’s privacy following 2016 hack
Cameron Abbott and Jacqueline Patishmanof K&L Gates write: In 2017, Uber disclosed to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) a breach of its some 57 million global users and...
View ArticleD-BOX provides update following ransomware incident two weeks ago
MONTREAL, July 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — D-BOX Technologies Inc. (“D-BOX” or the “Corporation”) (TSX: DBO), a world leader in haptic and immersive entertainment, announces that the Corporation is...
View ArticleChina Orders 25 Tech Giants to Fix Raft of Problems
Bloomberg News reports: China ordered more than two dozen technology firms to carry out internal inspections as part of a campaign to root out illegal online activity. The Ministry of Industry...
View ArticleZynga wins bids to compel arbitration, toss data breach case
Sara Merken reports an update to litigation following GnosticPlayers’ hack of Zynga in 2019: A California federal judge on Friday dealt a blow to plaintiffs suing mobile game developer Zynga Inc over...
View ArticleRI treasurer sues Facebook, Zuckerberg over alleged financial losses due to...
Katie Mulvaney reports: The state retirement system is suing Facebook and its co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that the social media giant and its leaders breached their financial duties in...
View ArticleHackers leak full EA data after failed extortion attempt
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The hackers who breached Electronic Arts last month have released the entire cache of stolen data after failing to extort the company and later sell the stolen files to a...
View ArticleWawa Customers Win Initial Settlement Approval in Data Suit
Maeve Allsup reports: More than 22 million Wawa Inc. customers were granted preliminary class status Friday in a suit stemming from a data breach that led to the sale of their payment information on...
View ArticleResearch finds cyber-snoops working for ‘Chinese state interests’ lurking in...
Gareth Halfacree reports: Attack protection specialist Cybereason has fingered threat actors working on behalf of “Chinese state interests” as being behind attacks on telcos operating in Southeast Asia...
View ArticleCoghlin Electrical Co. hit with ransomware attack
Monica Benevides reports: Worcester contractor Coghlin Electrical Corp. experienced a ransomware attack on Monday [July 26], although compromised files have been recovered, the Worcester Telegram &...
View ArticlePaxton Newspaper Employees’ Data Copied, Company Reveals
Kyle Massey reports: Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, which owns the Jonesboro Sun, the Batesville Guard, the Daily Citizen of Searcy and other Arkansas newspapers, suffered a cyber attack that...
View ArticleImplications for ATE insurance after data breach ‘privacy’ claim struck out
David Barker of Pinsent Masons writes: Many of the growing number of data protection-related claims being filed against businesses to have fallen victim to cyber attacks are being brought not just...
View ArticleSueball over breach of more than 5 million payment cards at Dixons Carphone...
Gareth Corfield reports: A Brit who tried to sue Dixons Carphone over the 2018 hack of 10 million customers’ details, including 5.9 million payment cards, has had his case booted out of the High Court....
View ArticleLeaked Document Says Google Fired Dozens of Employees for Data Misuse
Joseph Cox reports: Google fired dozens of employees between 2018 and 2020 for abusing their access to the company’s tools or data, with some workers potentially facing allegations of accessing Google...
View ArticleAU: Optus under investigation for White Pages privacy breach
Tom Biggs reports: Regulators have opened an investigation into Optus for potential breaches of the Privacy Act, following an incident in which the telco accidentally sent off thousands of customers’...
View ArticleSolarWinds urges US judge to toss out crap infosec sueball: We got pwned by...
Gareth Corfield reports: SolarWinds is urging a US federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against it by aggrieved shareholders who say they were misled about its security posture in advance of...
View ArticleStarHub suffers data breach, but says no system was compromised
Eileen Yu reports: StarHub says personal data of its customers, including email addresses and mobile numbers, have been found on a dump site. The Singapore telco, however, insists none of its customer...
View ArticleIsraeli cyber company detects severe Amazon security breach
The Jersualem Post reports: A severe security breach was detected in Amazon’s e-book tablet Kindle by Israeli cybersecurity provider Check Point, the company revealed on Friday. According to the...
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