Ransomware: Canadian company pays $425,000
Luke Irwin writes: A Canadian organization has reportedly paid criminals $425,000 in bitcoin after its systems were crippled in a ransomware attack. The claim comes from Daniel Tobok, CEO of forensic...
View ArticleHBO hacked: Hackers threaten to leak Game of Thrones (UPDATED)
Update: I made e-mail contact with the hackers earlier today. This really doesn’t seem to be the work of TheDarkOverlord at all. One of the hackers, who identified himself as “Mr. Smith” to me claims...
View ArticleHackers Leak Data From Mandiant Security Researcher in Operation #LeakTheAnalyst
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Earlier today, a hacker group named 31337 Hackers has leaked personal details and files belonging to a security researcher working for Mandiant, FireEye’s breach investigation...
View ArticleCNIL Fines Rental Car Company for Data Security Failure Attributable to...
Hunton & Williams explain: On July 27, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) imposed a fine of €40,000 on a French affiliate of the rental car company, The Hertz Corporation, for...
View ArticleIrish commuters warned that popular parking service provider customers’ data...
John Hand reports: Irish commuters have been warned that a company which allows people book and pay for parking by text, app and online is investigating whether their data has been breached after a...
View Article“HBO is Falling” leak site disappears?
So after grabbing headlines with their announcement that they had hacked HBO, “Mr. Smith” and those behind the attack haven’t responded to follow-up inquiries from this site and the leak site they had...
View ArticleData Breach as Office 365 Admin Center Displays Usage Data from Other Tenants
Tony Redmond reports: The danger of making mistakes when changing cloud systems that run at massive scale was demonstrated on Thursday evening (August 3) when the Office 365 Admin Center suddenly...
View ArticleNot exactly the best-laid plan….
Spoiler alert: so this probably wasn’t the best-planned crime. The New Indian Express reported this in July: In a case of corporate espionage, a computer engineer’s bid to sell his employer’s data to a...
View ArticleBig data breach unmasks Bloomberg chat room users
Kevin Dugan reports: Nearly one thousand Bloomberg terminal users participating in an anonymous chat room had their identities unmasked this week when a London investment company sent out a list of the...
View ArticleFireEye: “31337 Hackers” did not breach network or analyst’s computers or...
On July 31, a group calling themselves ” 31337 Hackers” leaked data and files purportedly hacked from an analyst working for Mandiant, the breach investigation division of FireEye. Why they had...
View ArticleCar lease companies’ poor cyber security exposed over 180,000 drivers
DutchNews.nl reports: Cyber security at some 50 car lease companies operating in the Netherlands was so bad that private details about at least 180,000 company car drivers was easily accessed by an IT...
View ArticleMan Who Hacked his Former Employer Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence
Dark Reading reports: A federal court sentenced a Tennessee man to an 18-month prison sentence and ordered him to pay $172,394 in restitution, following his breach into a former employer’s network and...
View ArticleHBO Hackers Dump Game of Throne Scripts, Another Episode, and Confidential...
“If history repeats itself, HBO may NEVER be the same Again. Winter Really is here” HB-Old is Dying……. — From an Email from the HBO Hackers This evening, the hackers who grabbed headlines last week...
View ArticleTop Next-Gen Security Firm Leaking Terabytes of Customer Data
From the this-can’t-be-good dept., Catalin Cimpanu reports: Sensitive corporate data from customers protected by Carbon Black endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions has been found on...
View ArticleNJ Attorney General Porrino Announces Multi-State Settlement With Nationwide...
Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced today that New Jersey, along with 31 other states and the District of Columbia, has entered into a settlement with Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company...
View ArticleUK: TalkTalk hit with yet another monetary penalty over earlier data...
TalkTalk, who was issued a £400,000 fine in October for its failure to prevent a 2015 hack, has now been hit with a £100,000 fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failure to to look after...
View Article“Mr. Smith:” HBO offered $250,000 “bug bounty” to hackers
The HBO hackers apparently want us all to know that they weren’t bluffing when they said they would not play games or go along with delaying tactics. In a letter to HBO, described previously on this...
View ArticleRevenge Hacks Cost Former Employee 34 Months in Prison, $1.1 Million in Damages
There’s a follow-up on a case involving a vengeful former employee that I’ve previously noted. Catalin Cimpanu reports: Brian P. Johnson, 44, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will have to spend the next 34...
View ArticleEighth Circuit asks for additional briefing in Target data breach class...
Jessica Karmasek reports: A $10 million class action settlement stemming from a 2013 Target data breach — described as “unfair” by some — is again being looked at by a federal appeals court. On...
View ArticleSg: Ex-financial adviser fined for data breach
K.C. Vijayan reports: A former financial consultant was fined $1,000 for breaching data protection laws by disposing of clients’ insurance policy-related documents in a rubbish bin in a residential...
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