Australian tech unicorn Canva suffers security breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Canva, a Sydney-based startup that’s behind the eponymous graphic design service, was hacked earlier today, ZDNet has learned. Data for roughly 139 million users has been taken...
View ArticleFirst American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance...
Brian Krebs reports: The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going...
View ArticleHackers steal key info about home hunters from housing agency
DutchNews.nl reports: Hackers have made off with hundreds, possibly thousands, of identity card scans after breaking into the computer system of rental housing agency NederWoon. The information stolen...
View ArticleCheckers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. Notifies Checkers and Rally Guests About...
TAMPA, Fla. May 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. (“Checkers”) announced today that it is notifying guests about a data security issue involving malware at certain Checkers...
View ArticleCitrix Sued For Not Securing Employee Info Before Data Breach
Sergiu Gatlan reports: A class action complaint was filed by an ex-employee of Citrix for damages suffered following the security breach which allowed hackers to access Citrix’s internal assets for...
View ArticleUK: Leicester City FC reveal details of ‘criminal online security breach’...
Sam Dimmer reports: Leicester City say users of their online store had their personal and financial details compromised following a security breach. The club say the breach affected some users between...
View ArticleReport: Theta360 Leak Potentially Exposed Millions of Users’ Public and...
VPNMentor reports that their research team has discovered that Theta360 inadvertently left users’ photos — even those intended to be private — exposed. The leak exposed at least 11 million public and...
View ArticleCa: Weight Loss Grants posts customer health information without consent
Sean O’Shea reports: A company that promised to pay customers for losing weight has posted personal information about clients, including their names, weights, weight loss goals and even facial...
View ArticleJewish dating app JCrush exposed user data and private messages
Zack Whittaker reports: A security lapse at JCrush, a dating app designed for the Jewish community, left a database open without a password, exposing sensitive user records and private messages to...
View Article23 million XRP stolen from users on GateHub due to ‘potential security breach’
Akash Grimath reports: Thomas Silkjær, the creative director at 2K/DENMARK, outlined a “potential security breach” at GateHub might have caused users to lose approximately 23 million XRP. GateHub is a...
View ArticleCathay Data Breach Incident – Personal Data Security & Retention Principles...
The following is the media statement from the Privacy Commissioner’s Office following the conclusion of their investigation into the 2018 Cathay Pacific Airways breach. You can download their...
View ArticleSock company Bombas fined by NYS for delayed notification of data breach
There’s a follow-up to the Bombas breach that was previously reported on this site. Laura Italiano reports: Sock-maker Bombas has settled the most uncomfortable data-breach probe in the history of...
View ArticleReport: Leak at Tech Data Corp. exposed 264GB of data — VPNMentor
VPNMentor reports that Tech Data Corporation sprung a major leak…. The research team at vpnMentor discovered a major data leak at the Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ: TECD), a Fortune 500 company...
View ArticleSG: Firm fined $4k by PDPC for leak of more than 400 national servicemen’s data
Lim Min Zhang reports: A firm has been fined $4,000 by Singapore’s privacy watchdog for the leak of the personal data of more than 400 national servicemen on June 12 last year due to a technical error....
View ArticleFormer Corp IT Director Convicted of Computer Fraud
Rachel Cohen reports on a hacking incident involving Corp-Students of Georgetown, Inc. (“The Corp.”). Former Georgetown student Justice Suh pleaded guilty on one count of computer fraud for hacking The...
View ArticleCBP says traveler and license plate images were stolen in data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed a data breach has involved the photos of passengers traveling in and out of the United States. The photos were obtained from a...
View ArticleUK: TalkTalk hacker Daniel Kelley sentenced to 4 years in jail
From the Crown Prosecution Service: A blackmailing hacker behind the TalkTalk cyber-attack – which cost the company £77million after the personal details of 157,000 customers were stolen – has today...
View ArticleFIN8 hackers return after two years with attacks against hospitality sector
Catalin Cimpanu reports that researchers claim to have spotted evidence of ongoing and increasing FIN8 activity: But in a report published today, cyber-security firm Morphisec said it detected and...
View ArticleCNIL Fines French Real Estate Service Provider for Data Security and...
From Hunton Andrews Kurth: On June 6, 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it levied a fine of €400,000 on SERGIC, a French real estate service provider, for failure...
View ArticleTwo hacking groups responsible for huge spike in hacked Magento 2.x stores
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two hacker groups are responsible for a huge spike in the number of hacked Magento 2.x shopping sites, according to Willem de Groot, founder of Sanguine Security. This is now...
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