Data of over 120 million Jio customers leaked, claim reports
This has the makings of another AA situation where despite evidence, an entity initially claims that data were not compromised, only to have to walk back their claims later on. The New Indian Express...
View ArticleHackers nab credit card data from up to 1,000 California Realtors
Jeff Collins reports: Just over 1,000 California Association of Realtors members may have been affected by a breach of the online store they use to buy everything from blank home sales contracts and...
View ArticleHow A Verizon Partner Exposed 14 Million Customer Accounts
Dan O’Sullivan reports: UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now report that a misconfigured cloud-based file repository exposed the names, addresses, account details, and account personal identification...
View ArticleSingapore Personal Data Protection Commissioner fines ION Orchard
A financial penalty of $15,000 was imposed on Orchard Turn Developments for failing to make reasonable security arrangements to protect personal data of its members that was stored on its server....
View ArticleNo Jio data theft, says Navi Mumbai police after initial probe
IANS reports: In a major relief to Reliance JIO customers, an initial police probe has found there was no theft of data by a computer engineer arrested from Rajasthan, a top investigating official said...
View ArticleAshley Madison parent corp in proposed $11.2 million data breach settlement
Jonathan Stempel reports: The owner of the Ashley Madison adultery website said on Friday it will pay $11.2 million to settle U.S. litigation brought on behalf of roughly 37 million users whose...
View ArticleHacker Steals $7 Million Worth of Ethereum From CoinDash Platform
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An unknown hacker has taken over the official website of the CoinDash platform and modified an Ethereum wallet address during the company’s ICO (Initial Coin Offering). The...
View ArticleDow Jones Data Leak Results from Amazon AWS Configuration Error
Kelly Sheridan reports: A data leak at Dow Jones & Co. exposed the personal information of millions of customers after a public cloud configuration error. This marks the fifth major public cloud...
View ArticleCa: Loblaws suffers another online security breach
Patrick O’Rourke reports: According to an email sent out to Loblaws account holders, the security of a ‘small number’ of accounts has been compromised, marking the second time the company has suffered...
View ArticleLucchese computer hacker sentenced to 18-months in federal prison
Andra Litton has the follow-up to a case previously noted on this site: A disgruntled ex-employee of Lucchese Boots was sentenced to 18-months in federal prison and ordered to pay $57,396.76 in...
View ArticleTNT Express warns of permanent data loss from WannaCry and NotPetya malware...
Graeme Burton reports: Courier company TNT Express has warned that it is still being affected by the NotPetya malware almost a month after it struck, and “cannot estimate when TNT services will be...
View ArticleA smart fish tank left a casino vulnerable to hackers
Selena Larson reports: Hackers attempted to steal data from a North American casino through a fish tank connected to the internet, according to a report from security firm Darktrace. Despite extra...
View ArticleSettlement of Walmart Canada Photo Centre Data Breach Lawsuits – Lessons Learned
Bradley J. Freedman of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP writes about the settlement of a class action lawsuit against Walmart and PNI Digital Media. DataBreaches.net had covered the breach involving both U.S....
View Article“BestBuy” Admits to Hijacking Deutsche Telekom Routers With Mirai Malware
I was just thinking about this guy last night, and woke up to see that Catalin Cimpanu has an update on him: A 29-year-old man pleaded guilty in court on Friday to hijacking over 900,000 routers from...
View ArticleRicoh Australia Scrambles to Fix Document Leak
Jeremy Kirk reports: Ricoh’s Australia office has notified banks, government agencies, universities and many large businesses about a curious data breach that, in some cases, exposed login credentials...
View Article45,000 Facebook Users Leave One-Star Ratings After Hacker’s Unjust Arrest
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Over 45,000 users have left one-star reviews on a company’s Facebook page after the business reported a security researcher to police and had him arrested in the middle of the...
View ArticleMicrosoft opens up a new front in the battle against Fancy Bear
John E. Dunn reports: Can anyone – or anything – take on well-resourced nation state hacking groups? Protected by anonymity and plausible deniability, conventional wisdom says not, but conventional...
View ArticleSeagate To Settle Phishing Scam With $5.75M In-Kind Deal
Seagate was one of many companies whose employee W-2 data were phished in 2016. In September 2016, the employees sued over the incident. Now Dave Simpson reports that the suit has a tentative...
View ArticleWestJet says some rewards members’ profile data leaked online
CBC News reports: WestJet says it is working with police in Calgary and the RCMP cybercrime unit after some members’ profile data was disclosed online. The airline said in a news release Friday night...
View ArticleNo Harm, No Lawsuit: Court Dismisses VTech Litigation
In November, 2015, this site noted a breach involving VTech. At the time, Motherboard reported: The hacked data includes names, email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents who...
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