Here’s the email Tesla sent employees telling them to stop leaking info
Lora Kolodny reports: Tesla’s security team sent a warning to employees this week to stop leaking company information. The email, which was shared with CNBC and verified with multiple current employees...
View ArticleHack into school lunch company web site leads to arrest of competitor
Jill Tucker reports: The heated competition between two Bay Area school lunch companies took a criminal turn after a top executive at one company allegedly hacked into the other’s web site in an...
View ArticleHackers steal card data from 201 online campus stores from Canada and the US
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of hackers has planted malicious JavaScript code that steals payment card details inside the e-commerce system used by colleges and universities in Canada and the US....
View ArticleNY: North Country newspaper group faces Ryuk attack, but is it second attack...
Alec Johnson reports: The cyber attack that began at the Watertown Daily Times on Saturday reared its head again Thursday, but staff rallied to work without hard-wired internet to get the papers out....
View ArticleAustrian construction group Porr hit by cyber attack
Kirsti Knolle reports: Austrian construction company Porr detected a cyber attack on its communication infrastructure on Thursday and its telephone lines and emails were disrupted, the company said....
View ArticleAirbnb users complain of accounts being ‘hacked’ saying they’ve been charged...
Helen Knapman reports: AIRBNB users are complaining that their accounts have been “hacked” with some finding holidays unknowingly booked in their name costing thousands of pounds. Others say genuine...
View ArticleIndiana sues Equifax over massive 2017 data breach
WANE reports: The state of Indiana has sued credit bureau Equifax for a 2017 data breach that left 147.9 million Americas, including 3.9 million Hoosiers, compromised. […]The state argued in its...
View ArticleFreedom Mobile server leak exposed customer data
Zack Whittaker reports: A security lapse at Canada’s fourth largest cell network Freedom Mobile exposed customer data. Security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar found an Elasticsearch server...
View ArticleHackers Withdraw 7,000 Bitcoins in Binance Crypto Exchange Security Breach
Aaron Wood reports: Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges by daily trade volume, has experienced a major security breach on May 7, according to a statement shared with Cointelegraph on...
View ArticleOngoing Attack Stealing Credit Cards From Over A Hundred Shopping Sites
Swati Khandelwal reports: Researchers from Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360’s NetLab have revealed details of an ongoing credit card hacking campaign that is currently stealing payment card...
View ArticleTurkish watchdog fines Facebook over data breach
The Daily Sabah reports: Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) issued a 1,650,000 Turkish lira ($270,000) administrative fine against social media platform Facebook over data breach and...
View ArticleWhy Rewards for Loyal Spenders Are ‘a Honey Pot for Hackers’
Tiffany Hsu reports: The punch cards stuffed in your wallet know next to nothing about you, except maybe how many frozen yogurts you still need to buy to get a free one. But loyalty programs, as they...
View ArticleTop-Tier Russian Hacking Collective Claims Breaches of Three Major Anti-Virus...
Executive Summary “Fxmsp” is a high-profile Russian- and English-speaking hacking collective. They specialize in breaching highly secure protected networks to access private corporate and government...
View ArticleEquifax Says Cybersecurity Breach Has Cost $1.4 Billion
Emma Hurt reports: Equifax, the Atlanta credit bureau, revealed in its earnings release Friday that dealing with its 2017 cybersecurity incident has cost about $1.4 billion plus legal fees. A year and...
View ArticlePacers company discloses data breach
The company associated with the Indiana Pacers – Pacers Sports & Entertainment (“PSE”) – issued a notice yesterday about a data security incident. Curious as to whether it impacted fans or...
View ArticleHackers are collecting payment details, user passwords from 4,600 sites
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have breached analytics service Picreel and open-source project Alpaca Forms and have modified JavaScript files on the infrastructure of these two companies to embed...
View ArticleCondé Nast notifies 1,100 WIRED subscribers after subscriber page vendor breach
Condé Nast is notifying about 1,100 WIRED subscribers of a breach involving their payment information. In a notification letter dated May 9, they write: The WIRED subscription page is hosted by a...
View ArticleTwitter discloses a bug impacting collection and sharing of location data on...
Twitter’s online Help section has the following notice: You trust us to be careful with your data, and because of that, we want to be open with you when we make a mistake. We have discovered that we...
View Article1.5 Million Mobile Users’ Card & Information Exposed
Roy Urrico reports: Security researchers discovered an exposed Elasticsearch server containing up to 1.5 million Freedom Mobile users’ personal data, passwordless, and including unencrypted credit card...
View ArticleWhatsApp urges users to upgrade app after security breach
Steven Scheer reports: Facebook’s WhatsApp urged users to upgrade to the latest version of its popular messaging app after reporting that users might be vulnerable to having malicious spyware installed...
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