Private proof-of-vaccine app Portpass continues to expose personal data even...
Robson Fletcher reports: Personal information belonging to more than 17,000 users of the private proof-of-vaccination app Portpass is still unsecured and visible online — including, in some cases,...
View ArticleKr: Facebook recommended to pay 300,000-won compensation per victim over...
Yonhap News Agency reports: The state watchdog on personal information protection on Friday recommended the operator of Facebook to pay 300,000 won (US$256.70) in compensation to each of 181 users...
View Article‘Black Shadow’ hackers leak data from Israeli LGBT app
Ben Zion Gad reports: The hacker group “Black Shadow” has leaked data from various Israeli companies, such as LGBTQ dating app “Atraf”, Dan bus company and tour booking company Pegasus on Saturday...
View ArticleKS: Company that dumped private records in public trash is fined
AP reports: A national company will pay nearly $500,000 in fines for improperly disposing of documents that contained personal information of clients, the Kansas Attorney General’s Office said....
View ArticleDomaining.com reports security incident
Seen on The Domains: Francois posted on the homepage of Domaining.com the following: BREACH SECURITY ALERT Domaining.com has been apparently compromised, login has been closed. We were not storing any...
View ArticleJukin Media hacked and data dumped; company claims a password reset is...
On Wednesday, Jukin Media posted a notice on its site requiring users to reset their passwords. They said the reset was due to a “security upgrade.” By now, whenever I see announcements about what...
View ArticleAlleged Twitter hacker charged with theft of $784K in crypto via SIM swaps
Lawrence Abrams reports that in an unsealed indictment in the Southern District of New York, the Department of Justice claimed that Joseph O’Connor, a/k/a “PlugwalkJoe,” and co-conspirators used SIM...
View ArticleUS sanctions four companies selling hacking tools, including NSO Group & Candiru
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US government has sanctioned today four companies that develop and sell spyware and other hacking tools, the US Department of Commerce announced today. The four companies...
View ArticleCISA urges vendors to patch BrakTooth bugs after exploits release
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Researchers have released public exploit code and a proof of concept tool to test Bluetooth devices against System-on-a-Chip (SoC) security bugs impacting multiple vendors,...
View ArticleCyberattack Hits Multiple Greek Shipping Firms
The Maritime Executive reports: Multiple Greek shipping companies have been hit by a ransomware attack that spread through the systems of a popular, well-established IT consulting firm, according to...
View ArticlebZx Network Hacked for $55M
Vishal Chawla reports: bZx, a widely-used DeFi protocol, has lost $55 million to an unknown hacker who it claims gained illegitimate access to its private key. It is still not clear how the hackers...
View ArticleUS Defense Contractor Discloses Data Breach
Dark Reading reports: Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), a US defense contractor, has confirmed a data breach in which attackers exfiltrated files containing personal information. The breach began...
View ArticleChina says a foreign spy agency hacked its airlines, stole passenger records
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Chinese officials said last week that a foreign intelligence agency hacked several of its airlines in 2020 and stole passenger travel records. The hacking campaign was...
View ArticleUS seizes $6 million in ransom payments and expected to charge Ukrainian over...
Christina Carrega and Sean Lyngaas report: Law enforcement officials have seized an estimated $6 million in ransom payments, and the US Justice Department is expected to announce Monday that it has...
View ArticleRobinhood Security Breach Exposes Data on Millions of Users
Annie Massa reports: Robinhood Markets Inc. said personal information of about 7 million people — or roughly a third of its customers — was compromised in a data breach last week and that the culprit...
View ArticleHere’s what happened when a major cyber attack took Triangle tech firm...
Zachary Eanes reports: For the first time since a cyber attack hit Raleigh tech firm Bandwidth, the company’s CEO, David Morken, publicly addressed the fallout from the event, saying his company did...
View ArticleBoat biz breaches itself: Brittany Ferries ‘fesses up to leaks caused by...
Paul Kunert reports: It’s never good when a boat operator talks of a breach, even if in this case it’s a figurative one. Brittany Ferries has told some customers that an unforeseen technical glitch...
View ArticleHPE says hackers breached Aruba Central using stolen access key
Lawrence Abrams reports: HPE has disclosed that data repositories for their Aruba Central network monitoring platform were compromised, allowing a threat actor to access collected data about monitored...
View ArticleMediaMarkt still blocked for ransomware attack. Open shops, intermittent...
Zach Shipman reports: The MediaMarktSaturn group has suffered a heavy ramsonware attack in recent days. It is difficult to say who did it: someone from Holland is ready to believe that it is the Hive...
View ArticleDutch newspaper accuses US spy agencies of orchestrating 2016 Booking.com breach
Gareth Corfield reports: Jointly US-Dutch owned Booking.com was illegally accessed by an American attacker in 2016 – and the company failed to tell anyone when it became aware of what happened,...
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