Exclusive: National Life Group denies claim by thedarkoverlord that they were...
Hackers claimed to have hacked hundreds of thousands of records from National Life Group, but investigation points to Sterling National Financial Group as the likely hacked entity The blackhat...
View ArticleHumana notifies members of business associate breach at Bankers Life
Humana‘s name has been popping up too much in my breach news searches recently. I noted two incidents in December involving Humana (one theft report and one hack involving Family Physicians Group (now...
View ArticleMarriott says less than 383 million guests impacted by breach, not 500 million
Catalin Cimpanu reports that Marriott has updated its assessment of the impact of a massive data breach disclosed in November. On a positive note, fewer people were affected than the 500 million...
View ArticleItalian Trade Union of State Police Officers Hacked & Defaced by The...
Hacktivism is still a thing, although we may not see as much of it here in the U.S. these days. The headlines about hundreds of German politicians having their details dumped may have garnered more...
View ArticleTitan notifies customers of payment card compromise
Memphis-based Titan Manufacturing and Distributing has been notifying consumers that its computer system had been compromised by malware during the period of November 23, 2017 to October 25, 2018....
View ArticleSingapore Airlines experiences security breach, personal information of more...
Hana Otsuka reports: Due to a software bug experienced by Singapore Airlines, the private information of more than 280 KrisFlyer members were disclosed to other members. Some even had their passport...
View ArticleBASF Workers in Taiwan Suspected of Leaking Company Secrets to Chinese Firm
Reuters reports: Taiwan is investigating six current and former employees of BASF’s local operations suspected of leaking corporate secrets to a rival Chinese company, an official said on Jan. 7. Five...
View ArticleGoogle Emails Users About Private Data Exposed by Google+ API Bug
Lawrence Abrams reports: Google has started sending out notifications to those who were affected by their Google+ API bug that was disclosed in December 2018. This notification provides details...
View ArticleDiscountMugs.com says four months of customer credit cards stolen by hackers
Zack Whittaker reports: DiscountMugs.com, a large online custom mug and apparel store, had a four-month-long data breach just before the busy Christmas holiday season. The company said in a letter to...
View ArticleOXO Discloses MageCart Attack That Targeted Customer Data on Oxo.com
Lawrence Abrams reports: United States based kitchen utensil manufacturer OXO International disclosed a data breach that spans numerous periods over two years. This breach notification states that...
View ArticleHK: TransUnion in new apology amid leak fear
Jane Cheung reports: TransUnion has been forced to apologize again after it was discovered that unauthorized people could gain access to mortgage information on its website. Despite the apology, it...
View ArticleNeiman Marcus reaches $1.5 million data breach settlement
AP reports: More than 40 state attorneys general have announced a $1.5 million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group LLC over a data breach the Dallas-based retailer disclosed in January 2014. The...
View ArticleAnother data breach? Amazon India leaks sellers information in tech error
Yuvraj Malik reports: A month after its global e-commerce site faced a technical glitch that left exposed user data, Amazon has suffered a similar malfunction this time to its India platform. Sources...
View ArticleCVs containing sensitive info of over 202 million Chinese users left exposed...
Catalin Cimpanu reports on another exposed MongoDB installation found by Bob Diachenko of Hacken Proof: The MongoDB instance contained 854GB of data, with 202,730,434 records in total, most of which...
View ArticlePersonal Information Taken From Tax Filing Office Found In North Texas Dumpster
CBS DFW reports: A woman in Mansfield got a call from a man who said he found her personal information in a dumpster. The documents were found in a Mansfield industrial office complex about ten miles...
View ArticleAttributions Have Consequences: The Danger of Calling Out Cyberattackers
Leonid Bershidsky reports: The $100 million lawsuit that Mondelez, the maker of Oreos and Cadbury chocolate, has brought against Zurich Insurance Group shows that governments should be more careful...
View ArticleUK hacker “BestBuy” sentenced for Mirai botnet attack on Lonestar
Catalin Cimpanu does some great reporting on the sentencing of “BestBuy:” A UK court sentenced today a 30-year-old man to two years and eight months in prison for using a DDoS botnet to viciously...
View ArticleA Nasty Trick: From Credential Theft Malware to Business Disruption
Kimberly Goody, Jeremy Kennelly, Jaideep Natu, Christopher Glyer write: FireEye is tracking a set of financially-motivated activity referred to as TEMP.MixMaster that involves the interactive...
View ArticleDirectors and Officers Settle Over Yahoo Hack: A New Chapter in Derivative...
Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap writes: Yesterday, a Superior Court judge in Santa Clara, California approved what is believed to be the first monetary award to a company in a data breach-related...
View ArticleChinese hackers, APT10, may have struck Keidanren system in 2016
Tatsuya Sudo reports: A Chinese group that has been accused by the U.S. government in a series of cybertheft cases around the world is now suspected in the 2016 hacking of the computer system used by...
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