Supplier to major UK supermarkets Aldi, Tesco & Sainsbury’s hit by cyber...
Owen Scott reports that Peter Green Chilled, a transport service to some of Britain’s supermarkets, has been the victim of a cyberattack with a ransom demand. Peter Green Chilled has said that it is...
View ArticleHacker who breached communications app used by Trump aide stole data from...
A.J. Vicens and Raphael Satter report: A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month intercepted messages from a broader...
View ArticleFTC Finalizes Order with GoDaddy over Data Security Failures
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order with GoDaddy settling allegations that the webhosting provider misled consumers by failing to implement data security protections, which led to...
View ArticlePrivate Industry Notification: Silent Ransom Group Targeting Law Firms
The following information is being provided by the FBI, with no guarantees or warranties, for potential use at the sole discretion of recipients to protect against cyber threats. This data is provided...
View ArticleNow it’s Tiffany: Another LVMH luxury brand hit by hackers
First it was Dior. Now it’s Tiffany & Co. Seok Nam-jun and Kim Mi-geon report: Tiffany & Co. has confirmed a data breach affecting customers in South Korea, marking the second such incident...
View ArticleEstonia launches international search for Moroccan citizen wanted over data...
ERR reports: The Central Criminal Police and the Office of the Prosecutor General have initiated an international search for a Moroccan citizen suspected of last year unlawfully accessing and...
View ArticleMathWorks, Creator of MATLAB, Confirms Ransomware Attack
Kristina Beeks reports: MathWorks, a mathematical computing software company headquartered in Natick, Mass., disclosed a ransomware attack in an update to its website on Monday. MathWorks is known for...
View ArticleVictoria’s Secret takes down website after security incident
Sergiu Gatlan reported yesterday: Fashion giant Victoria’s Secret has taken down its website and some store services because of an ongoing security incident. Victoria’s Secret manages approximately...
View ArticleVanta bug exposed customers’ data to other customers
Zack Whittaker reports: Compliance company Vanta has confirmed that a bug exposed the private data of some of its customers to other Vanta customers. The company told TechCrunch that the data exposure...
View ArticleGermany fines Vodafone $51 million for privacy, security breaches
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The German data protection authority (BfDI) has fined Vodafone GmbH, the telecommunications company’s German subsidiary, €45 million ($51.4 million) for privacy and security...
View ArticlePowerSchool hacker pleads guilty, released on personal recognizance bond
He’s just a frail-looking teenager, but he sent threatening emails to get his victims to pay his extortion demands. Today, 19 year-old Assumption College student Matthew Lane waived indictment and...
View ArticleNigerian National Sentenced To More Than Five Years For Hacking, Fraud, And...
Jay Clayton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of...
View ArticleZa: Cyber extortionist sentenced to eight years in jail
Admire Moyo reports on an insider wrongdoing case in South Africa: In a landmark case, a man was last week sentenced to eight years in jail for contravening South Africa’s Cyber Crimes Act. Lucky...
View ArticleAMI Group – Travel & Tours notice of ransomware attack
The following notice was posted June 3 on Facebook. As of publication, there is no notice on their website, and although AMI indicates that APT73 is responsible for the attack, there is nothing on...
View ArticleA guilty plea in the PowerSchool case still leaves unanswered questions
On June 6, 19-year-old Matthew D. Lane pleaded guilty in federal court in Massachusetts to one count each of conspiracy to commit cyber extortion, cyber extortion, unauthorized access to protected...
View ArticleWestJet investigates cyberattack disrupting internal systems
Lawrence Abrams reports: WestJet, Canada’s second-largest airline, is investigating a cyberattack that has disrupted access to some internal systems as it responds to the breach. “WestJet is aware of a...
View ArticleWashington Post investigating cyberattack on journalists, WSJ reports
Reuters reports: A cyberattack on the Washington Post compromised the email accounts of several journalists and was most likely the work of a foreign government, the Wall Street Journal reported on...
View ArticleCyberattack pushes German napkin company into insolvency
It is not often that a ransomware attack or cyberattack is wholly responsible for a business failing. With each such claim that is investigated, we sometimes find that an entity was already in...
View ArticleHackers Break Into Car Sharing App, 8.4 Million Users Affected
Bogdan Popa reports: Indian company Zoomcar, best known for its car-sharing model that allows customers to rent vehicles from individuals, has recently acknowledged a data breach that exposed the data...
View ArticleSompo Japan Insurance submits improvement plan after info leakage
Insurance Asia reports: Sompo Japan Insurance has submitted a business improvement plan to the local Financial Services Agency (FSA). The FSA had earlier ordered the insurer to submit the plan on 24...
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