Transavia airline fined for weak security practices that led to data breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Dutch Data Protection Agency has levied a €400,000 ($455,000) fine today against Transavia, a Dutch airline that operates low-cost routes across Europe, for a security...
View ArticleData of 5.9m customers of RedDoorz hotel booking site leaked in Singapore’s...
Kenny Chee reports: The personal data of nearly 5.9 million Singaporean and South-east Asian customers of hotel booking site RedDoorz was found to have been leaked, in what the Government has called...
View ArticlePopular adult cam chat exposed users data: report
Bob Diachenko reports: On Nov 5th, I discovered an exposed database that appeared to belong to live sex cam website Stripchat. The exposed database makes multiple references to Stripchat and consists...
View ArticleTr: MNG Kargo Hacked: User Information Stolen
Michael Lewis reports: MNG Cargo, which has a wide transportation network in our country, announced that some of its corporate customers were attacked by cyber attacks as a result of their user names...
View ArticleSix million Sky routers exposed to takeover attacks for 17 months
Bill Toulas reports: Around six million Sky Broadband customer routers in the UK were affected by a critical vulnerability that took over 17 months to roll out a fix to customers. The disclosed...
View ArticleCalifornia Pizza Kitchen spills over 100,000 employee Social Security numbers
Carly Page reports: California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) has revealed a data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 100,000 current and former employees. The U.S. pizza chain, which has...
View ArticleYemeksepeti Hacked Again? Ransom Demanded, Claims Disputed
Michael Lewis reports: Yemeksepeti, which was hacked last March and whose data was stolen, was again attacked by a hacker group. As a result of the said attack, user data was captured along with many...
View ArticleIran’s Mahan Air says its has foiled a cyber attack – TV
Reuters reports: A cyber attack against Iranian private airline Mahan Air has been foiled, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, adding that the airliner’s flight schedule was not affected by the...
View ArticleDk: Wind turbine giant Vestas confirms data breach following ‘cybersecurity...
Adam Bannister reports: Vestas, the world’s largest supplier of wind turbines, has revealed that data has been compromised following a suspected cyber-attack. In a statement posted today (November 22),...
View ArticleGoDaddy security breach exposed WordPress data of 1.2 Mn users
Reuters reports: Web hosting company GoDaddy Inc said on Monday email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers had been exposed in an unauthorised third-party...
View ArticleUpdate: Astoria notifying 940,000 consumers after breach earlier this year
There is an update to one of the most controversial data breaches of 2021. Mark Francis of Holland & Knight, who are external counsel for Astoria Company LLC, notified the Maine Attorney General’s...
View ArticlePh: Personal data of 22,000 S&R shopping members compromised in cyber attack
Gabriela Baron reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Wednesday, Nov. 24, said the personal data of 22,000 S&R members were compromised following a recent cyber attack. In a statement,...
View ArticleBureau Veritas hit by cyberattack on cybersecurity system
Ship Technology reports: French firm Bureau Veritas, which specialises in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services, has reported a cyberattack that affected its cybersecurity system....
View ArticleData Breach Spreads To Six Web Hosts
Roger Montti reports: The GoDaddy data breach that affected up to 1.2 million web hosts has expanded to six more web hosts serving customers worldwide. The six additional compromised web hosts are...
View ArticleSupernus Pharmaceuticals : Targeted in Ransomware Incident – Form 8-K
ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 24, 2021 — Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUPN), a biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it was the recent target of a ransomware attack. The attack had no...
View ArticleSwire Pacific Offshore reports cyberattack
Seen on Hellenic Shipping News: Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) has discovered that it was the target of a cyberattack which involved unauthorised access to its IT systems. The unauthorised access has...
View ArticlePanasonic discloses four-months-long data breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Japanese electronics giant Panasonic has disclosed on Friday a major security breach after an unidentified threat actor had gained access to its internal network. The...
View ArticleRecovering from ransomware: One organization’s inside story
Yann Serra reports: On Sunday 21 February 2021, Manutan, a large office equipment distributor, discovered that two-thirds of its 1,200 servers had succumbed to a cyber attack by the DoppelPaymer...
View ArticleUK watchdog’s punishment for Blackbaud, Easyjet, other big privacy...
Gareth Corfield reports: Blackbaud was given a private slap on the wrist by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after paying off criminals who stole users’ financial data from the cloud...
View ArticleFormer Ubiquiti employee charged with hacking and extorting company
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An Oregon man and a former employee of Ubiquiti Networks was arrested and charged today with hacking the company’s servers, stealing gigabytes of information, and then...
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