Robocall Firm Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of US Voters’ Records
Catalin Cimpanu reports: RoboCent, a Virginia Beach-based political robocall firm, has exposed the personal details of hundreds of thousands of US voters, according to the findings of a security...
View ArticleHuawei security concerns
Angus Grigg reports: Chinese phone company Huawei has been linked to a major data breach in Africa casting doubt on the company’s claim there is no evidence to back up national security concerns which...
View ArticleShort Circuit: How a Robotics Vendor Exposed Confidential Data for Major...
The UpGuard Cyber Risk team can now disclose that sensitive documents for over a hundred manufacturing companies were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics, “an...
View ArticleWebsite Found Selling Data of 250,000 MBBS Applicants For Rs. 1 Lakh
Tushar Mehta reports: A new case of breach of data privacy in India has surfaced in which the data of the applicants of a medical entrance exam is being sold blatantly online. Business Standard reports...
View ArticleIf you shopped at these 15 stores in the last year, your data might have been...
Dennis Green and Mary Hanbury report: At least 15 separate security breaches occurred at retailers from January 2017 until now. Many of them were caused by flaws in payment systems, either online or in...
View ArticleSecurities Investors Association (Singapore) notifies 70,000 members of newly...
Benjamin Cher reports: The Securities Investors Association (Singapore) has discovered a data breach that happened five years ago. In an email to its members, SIAS said that some 70,000 members have...
View ArticleLong Beach Port terminal hit by ransomware attack
Mark Edward Nero reports: The China Ocean Shipping Co. Terminal at the Port of Long Beach was hit by a cyberattack on Tuesday, July 24. A spokesman for the Shanghai-based company, which acknowledged...
View ArticleTelstra customer stumbles across contact details of 66,000 fellow customers
Elise Baker reports: A 63-year-old layman, who admits he isn’t a “tech-savvy person”, has somehow been able to access a Telstra database containing the contact details of their customers. Robert Irvine...
View ArticleOwners of 3 small Indian IT firms arrested for leaking data
Express News Service reports: Proprietors of three small-scale IT companies were arrested on Saturday in connection with the data leak of students who appeared for the class 10 and 12 state board exams...
View ArticleCourt Rules Drivers Lack Standing to Pursue Claims Against Uber Because Data...
Tony Tootell and Patrick J. McMahon of Foley Lardner write: California companies housing their drivers’ personal information may feel less exposed to liability in light of the Northern District of...
View ArticleUK shipping provider Clarkson discloses 2017 hack and ransom demand
A breach disclosure notification issued today by Clarkson PLC is particularly notable for the fact that they were reportedly able to track down and recover a hacked copy of their data: Through the...
View ArticleUK: Dixons Carphone data breach hit extra 9m customers
Wouldn’t you hate to be That Guy who has to tell the boss that they need to revise their breach estimate up from 1+ million to 10 million? Wale Azeez reports: Dixons Carphone has apologised to all of...
View ArticleHackers linked to Russian government targeted Swiss chemical weapons experts
The Local reports: The Swiss Spiez Laboratory, which specializes in the prevention of chemical, biological and atomic warfare, was apparently attacked by a group of hackers linked to Russia’s secret...
View ArticleThree members of notorious “FIN7” criminal ring in custody for attacking more...
The Department of Justice announced a stunning arrest today of key players in one of the most damaging threat actors in the last decade. Kudos to all involved in their arrests. You can read the DOJ’s...
View ArticleJersey Mike’s Warns Customers To Reset Passwords
Abeerah Hashim reports: Jersey Mike’s Subs’ recent emails to its customers have made them suspicious of a cyber attack. The firm has warned its customers to ensure their accounts’ security and has...
View ArticleForum post claims breach of 850k users’ information; leak from...
Lee Johnstone reports on a leak involving a non-profit organization that tries to match employers with job seekers who are veterans: Today a user has posted a new thread to a known forum that makes...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Creditmate.in developer’s goof left 19,000 consumers’ credit...
By Dissent Doe and Lee Johnstone On July 27, an independent researcher known as “Flash Gordon” (@s7sins on Twitter) contacted DataBreaches.net and Lee Johnstone to report that during a routine keyword...
View ArticleNY: GE engineer accused of data theft back in court
Lynzi Deluccia reports: The GE engineer accused of stealing secret information from his work was back in court on Thursday. Official court documents show the Niskayuna man is in charge of other...
View ArticleFashion Nexus reports 650k affected by hack by “white hat hacker” or “ethical...
Tim Clark reports: Details including the email and home addresses of around 650,000 fashion shoppers were stolen following a security breach at ecommerce platform provider Fashion Nexus. The data...
View ArticleSalesforce API error may have caused data leak
Tom Allen reports: Cloud computing firm Salesforce has warned customers that their information may have been shared with other customers’ accounts, due to an API error. In a security advisory, the CRM...
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