Garmin-owned navigation unit exposed thousands of boat owners’ data
Zack Whittaker reports: Navionics, an electronic navigational chart maker owned by tech giant Garmin, has secured an exposed database that contained hundreds of thousands of customer records. The...
View ArticleAlibaba passes blame for Alipay thefts to Apple
Asia Times reports: Chinese tech giant Alibaba warned users on Wednesday that they could be at risk from making cashless transactions or paying bills with its Alipay application on Apple gadgets,...
View ArticleSenators request Google provide internal memo reportedly urging Google+ cover-up
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Three Republican senators have sent a letter to Google today demanding the company hand over an internal memo based on which Google decided to cover up a Google+ data leak...
View ArticleHackers breach web hosting provider for the second time in the past year
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The South African branch of Hetzner, a well-known web hosting provider, has suffered its second security breach in the past year, ZDNet has learned from the company’s...
View ArticleMindBody-owned FitMetrix exposed millions of user records — thanks to servers...
Zack Whittaker reports: FitMetrix, a fitness technology and performance tracking company owned by gym booking giant Mindbody, has exposed millions of user records because it left several of its servers...
View ArticleHackers accessed personal information of 30 million Facebook users
Donnie O’Sullivan reports: Almost 30 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and email addresses were accessed by hackers in the biggest security breach in the company’s history, Facebook said Friday....
View ArticleInfidelity dating site Ashley Madison still gets thousands of new users every...
Lindsay Dodgson reports: If you sign up to Ashley Madison, you don’t have to think about what you’re doing as cheating, but “outsourcing your sex life.” “In 2018 we expect our life partners are going...
View ArticleThousands of Neoflam Australia customers exposed in data leak
Rachel Eddie reports: Kitchenware brand Neoflam Australia has mistakenly published its internal warranty records, exposing the private information of more than 7500 of its customers, The New Daily can...
View ArticleLatvian National Sentenced To Prison For “Scareware” Hacking Scheme That...
There’s an update to a case previously reported in February that I missed last month. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota: A Latvian man was sentenced today in Minneapolis for...
View ArticleStill sending data via unencrypted thumb drives in the mail? It will cost you.
Weibrecht Law in New Hampshire recently submitted a notification to their state with this explanation of their breach: On or about Monday September 10th, our office sent an unencrypted electronic copy...
View ArticleCybersecurity for Small Business: New FTC Resources
Free Webinar this Thursday: Learn about the FTC’s new cybersecurity for small business campaign, including a new website, fact sheets, quizzes and videos. Hear how to use these tools to help improve...
View ArticleEquifax engineer who designed breach portal gets 8 months of house arrest for...
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A former Equifax engineer who coded parts of the company’s breach notification website for last year’s security incident was sentenced this week to eight months of home...
View ArticleABA ethics opinion offers guidance on data breaches
Jason Tashea reports: Lawyers have to safeguard client data and notify clients of a data breach, and the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has issued a formal opinion...
View ArticleInformation of 396K Users Exposed in Facepunch Data Breach
Sergiu Gatlan reports: As reported by Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned breach notification service, the Facepunch game studio was the victim of a data breach in June 2016 which led to sensitive...
View ArticlePaytm data theft case: Founder Vijay Shekhar’s kin says stolen data includes...
Priyanka Saha reports: An extortion bid and a threat to leak out “some photos and personal financial details” have led to the arrest of Sonia Dhawan, a long-time secretary of Vijay Shekhar Sharma and...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia’s ‘Davos in the Desert’ website was hacked and defaced
Zack Whittaker reports: The website of the Saudi government’s upcoming Future Investment Initiative conference was hacked and defaced with images of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi....
View Article$50 million settlement in Yahoo security breach
Michael Liedtke reports: Yahoo has agreed to pay $50 million in damages and provide two years of free credit-monitoring services to 200 million people whose email addresses and other personal...
View ArticleZA: Internet Solutions warns of security breach
Jan Vermeulen reports: Internet Solutions (IS) has confirmed that its internal monitoring systems have detected “irregular activity” on some of its virtual services. This comes after the company sent a...
View ArticleUpdate: TIO Networks notifies consumers of breach going back to 2014 or earlier
TIO Networks USA was acquired by PayPal in July, 2017. Months later, they reported, services were suspended after discovery of vulnerabilities. Investigation into those vulnerabilities resulted in TIO...
View ArticleCathay Pacific flags data breach affecting 9.4 million passengers
Reuters reports: Cathay Pacific Airways said on Wednesday (Oct 24) that data of about 9.4 million passengers of Cathay and its unit Hong Kong Dragon Airlines had been accessed without authorisation....
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