Fortnum & Mason shoppers’ details stolen in Typeform’s data breach
Natasha Bernal reports: Fortnum & Mason has admitted that thousands of customers have had their personal data stolen in a cyber attack on the upmarket grocer. The retailer said that around 23,000...
View ArticleCosta Coffee Applicant Details Hacked in PageUp Breach
Ed Targett reports: The personal details of Costa Coffee and Premier Inn job applicants have been stolen after a data breach of owner Whitbread’s online recruitment system, run by Australia’s PageUp,...
View ArticleTypeForm breach affects Travelodge guests, too
Alessandro Carrara reports: Budget hotel chain Travelodge has been hit by a security breach which allowed an unauthorised third party to steal guest names and emails. Travelodge was notified by...
View ArticleAU: Cyanweb Solutions hit by “criminal hacking”, website data and backups lost
Nico Arboleda and Steven Kiernan report what is pretty much a total destruction breach: Digital marketing and web provider Cyanweb Solutions lost nearly all customer data and backups after a “criminal...
View ArticleCBC privacy breach was bigger, broader than 1st announced
Dean Beeby reports: A privacy breach at CBC/Radio-Canada was larger than initially reported, involving 23,675 employees, former employees, contractors and others, internal documents show. The...
View ArticleIn: Yatra.com breach: How to check if your data is compromised, and what to...
Shilpa S. Ranipeta reports: Online travel bookings platform Yatra.com reportedly had five million records exposed in a data breach back in 2013. That means if you have an account on Yatra.com, your...
View ArticlePolice probe after adoption agency’s files found strewn on Tel Aviv street
Times of Israel reports: A Tel Aviv resident was shocked to find thousands of highly confidential documents from a leading Israeli adoption agency strewn on a sidewalk in the city. The files from the...
View ArticleUser data exposed in Domain Factory hosting security breach
Charlie Osborne reports: German hosting provider Domain Factory has experienced a data breach which has exposed customer data. Last week, the company said [translated] an unknown threat actor posted...
View ArticleSecurity Firm Sued for Failing to Detect Malware That Caused a 2009 Breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two insurance companies are suing a cyber-security firm to recover insurance fees paid to a customer after the security firm failed to detect malware on the client’s network...
View ArticleMacy’s and Bloomingdale’s notify customers of attack
Thanks to Catalin Cimpanu of Bleeping Computer. Catalin called my attention to a notification from Macy’s about a breach affecting Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com customers. I had actually tweeted...
View ArticleAnother Crypto(Currency) Fail: Hackers Steal $23.5 Million from Token Service...
Jeff John Roberts reports: A controversial cryptocurrency project known as Bancor—which last year raised $153 million to create a digital token exchange—hit another stumble: On Monday afternoon, the...
View ArticleSingapore Taekwondo Federation fined $30,000 for leak of students’ data
ChannelNewsAsia reports: The Singapore Taekwondo Federation has been fined S$30,000 after the NRIC numbers of 782 minors were disclosed via PDF documents on its website. The issue was discovered on May...
View ArticleMyEtherWallet Warns of [Another] Hack, Urges Hola Users to Move Funds
CCN reports: Popular Ethereum wallet interface and token wallet MyEtherWallet is – yet again – at the center of a significant security breach and has warned its users utilizing a popular VPN to move...
View ArticleUpdate: BP data breach affected 60,000 after malware attack on PageUp job portal
Julie Iles reports that estimates of the PageUp breach impact on BP applicants has increased significantly: BP says a hack of its online recruitment portal has compromised the data of more job...
View ArticleVodafone information glitch ‘bad privacy breach’
Susan Edmunds reports: A Vodafone mobile customer was shocked to discover he could see a stranger’s personal details when he logged into his account online. Hayden Maskell said, when he logged into My...
View ArticleAU: Major employee privacy breach at BHP
Mirage News reports: CFMEU Mining and Energy has written to BHP Billiton today expressing concern about multiple breaches of employee privacy affecting members of the union in Queensland and New South...
View ArticleFor $80 Million, Yahoo! Settles Shareholder Class Action Claiming Stock Price...
Derek Borchardt and Craig A. Newman write: In the first notable resolution of a data breach-related securities fraud case, a federal court has preliminarily approved Yahoo!’s $80 million settlement...
View ArticleHackers are selling access to law firm secrets on dark web sites
Jennifer Schlesinger and Andrea Day report: It would be hard to walk into to a major business and walk away with all its sensitive information. But sometimes that’s not the case when it comes to online...
View ArticleThousands of Mega logins dumped online, exposing user files
Zack Whittaker reports: Thousands of credentials for accounts associated with New Zealand-based file storage service Mega have been published online, ZDNet has learned. The text file contains over...
View ArticleTelefonica breach exposes personal data of ‘millions’ of customers
Carly Page reports: Spanish operator Telefonica has suffered a security breach that exposed the personal data of millions of customers. The breach allowed anyone to access the billing data of other...
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