Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for ’embarrassing’ breach
Paul Kunert reports: The Centre for Computing History (CCH) in Cambridge, England, has apologised for an “embarrassing” breach in its online customer datafile, though thankfully no payment card...
View ArticleA massive ‘stalkerware’ leak puts the phone data of thousands at risk
Zack Whittaker reports: The private phone data of hundreds of thousands of people are at risk. Call records, text messages, photos, browsing history, precise geolocations and call recordings can all be...
View ArticleOlympus US and Sinclair Broadcast Group hacks tied to sanctioned Russian...
Zack Whittaker and Carly Page report: An “ongoing” cyberattack against the Japanese technology giant Olympus was caused by a Russian ransomware group sanctioned by the U.S. government, according to two...
View ArticleThief Who Swiped 94,000 Credit Card Numbers At Michaels Stores In NY, NJ, CT,...
Jerry DeMarco reports an update to a breach previously covered extensively on this site over the past decade. A member of an ID theft ring that stole more than $600,000 from customers at Michaels...
View ArticleCT: Wiggin and Dana law firm discloses ransomware attack
A Connecticut law firm is disclosing a breach that is still under investigation. The firm claims that it was in July that they received confirmation of data access. They do not reveal when the attack...
View ArticleFacebook sues Ukrainian who scraped the data of 178 million users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Facebook has filed a lawsuit on Friday against a Ukrainian national for allegedly scraping its website and selling the personal data of more than 178 million users on an...
View ArticleSIAE (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers) hit by ransomware; threat...
If you are interested in ransomware attacks or other attacks on Italian entities, you should bookmark SuspectFile.com. Marco A. De Felice generally publishes in Italian, but machine translations are...
View ArticleTech Etch notifying employees of August ransomware incident
Today’s reminder that a business may also have a health plan for employees with protected health information. PLYMOUTH, Mass., Oct. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Tech Etch, a trusted provider of critical...
View ArticleSwiss exhibitions organizer MCH Group hit by cyber-attack
Emma Woollacott reports: Swiss events organizer and marketing company MCH Group was hit by a malware attack on Wednesday (October 20), and says it is working to get systems up and running again. The...
View ArticleUK: Tesco website hacked and down for second day
Claire Gordon reports: One of the UK’s biggest supermarkets has been hit by hackers leaving its website and shopping app offline. The Tesco website is hacked and showing an error message for the second...
View ArticleIn: IPO-bound unicorn MobiKwik under RBI scanner for data breach
Debangana Ghosh reports on an incident involving a claimed Mobikwik breach that this site covered a number of times. The alleged data breach of 3.5 million users at IPO-bound fintech unicorn MobiKwik...
View ArticleSolarWinds Hackers Continue to Hit Technology Companies, Says Microsoft
Robert McMillan and Dustin Volz report: The Russia-linked hackers behind last year’s compromise of a wide swath of the U.S. government and scores of private companies, including SolarWinds Corp. have...
View ArticleCentral Restaurants Group in Thailand hit by Desorden
The Desorden threat actors have been busy, it seems, as they have announced an attack on Central Restaurants Group (CRG) in Thailand. The attack, with proof of claim, was posted on a popular hacking...
View ArticleDesorden Group expands attack on Central Group after deal to pay them...
Yesterday, this site reported that Desorden Group hit Central Restaurants Group (CRG) in Thailand. A Desorden spokesperson had told this site that there would be more details to be revealed, and now...
View ArticleSg: Employment agency that suffered data breach says most stolen data is from...
David Sun reports: An employment agency that suffered a data breach earlier this month has issued a statement acknowledging the incident, but said it never received any ransom demand to recover the...
View ArticleCyber attack paralyzes Eberspaecher
The following is a machine translation: Hackers paralyzed the international automotive supplier Eberspächer with a major cyber attack on Sunday morning. The website is also down. To protect customers...
View ArticleAnother law firm gets hit….. and yes, medical info was in its files
Today’s reminder that law firms have a wealth of personal, sensitive, and medically related info that is often not covered by HIPAA. Coughlin & Cerhart (C&G) law firm in New York experienced a...
View ArticleOver 400,000 German Students Data Leaked by a Flawed API
Manikanta Immann reports: Scoolio is a german app for students, used mainly for educational updates, record keeping, and networking. After informing the flaw to Scoolio’s developer, a fix was released...
View ArticleMinnesota Man Charged With Computer Intrusion And Illegally Streaming Content...
Defendant Also Attempted to Extort Approximately $150,000 From Major League Baseball Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll,...
View ArticleUK: Tesco worker compensated after supermarket lost 15 years of her medical...
Tristan Cork reports: A woman from Bristol has been awarded £3,000 in compensation after discovering Tesco had lost 15 years of her employment records, including sensitive medical information....
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