BASF, Siemens, Henkel, Roche target of cyber attacks
Arno Schuetze, John Miller and David Dolan report: German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel (HNKG_p.DE) along with a host of others said on Wednesday they had been victims of cyber attacks,...
View ArticleSecond entity in Mobile, Alabama hit with ransomware
Nicole Fierro reports that in addition to the Springhill Medical Center, steel Blastech Mobile has also been crippled by a ransomware attack. According to an employee interviewed by NBC: “They...
View ArticleDNForum Sends Out Password Reset
Elliot Silver writes: Earlier this morning, I unexpectedly received a password reset request at DNForum. I was previously an active user on DNForum, but I have not used the forum in quite some time. As...
View ArticleCa: ‘We feel terrible’: Vancouver tour company apologizes as privacy...
Penny Daflos reports: A tour company that organizes school field trips for B.C. students is apologizing for dumping personal information in the recycling bin of a sorting room where hundreds of...
View ArticleSephora customers’ data breached, names, e-mail addresses and passwords exposed
Hariz Baharudin reports: International beauty retailer Sephora has admitted to a breach of its online users’ data, affecting customers in Singapore as well as in other countries including Malaysia,...
View ArticleThis London Firm Helps the Wealthy Hide Assets – or Steal Them. Luckily We...
Barrett Brown writes: It is my cheerful duty to announce the acquisition of around 85 gigabytes of leaked emails, phone calls, faxes, and other documents originating from the London-based tax shelter...
View ArticleHellenic Data Protection Authority fines Price Waterhouse Coopers 150K for...
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority imposed a 150,000 euros fine on Price Waterhouse Coopers Business SA (PWC BS) for the illegal processing of personal data of its employees, was reported on...
View ArticleHonda Motor Company leaks database with 134 million rows of employee computer...
Justin reports: I was searching Shodan yet again when I discovered an ElasticSearch database without any authentication. The data contained within this database was related to the internal network and...
View ArticleNever count your Equifax chicken$ before… well, you know
If you had a gleam in your eye thinking about how you might get $125 from Equifax as part of their settlement, guess again. The FTC announced today that so many people had already filed claims that...
View ArticlePearson Hack Exposed Details on Thousands of U.S. Students
Parmy Olson reports that while Pearson may be trying to implant the idea that 13,000 students were affected by its recently disclosed breach, the number may actually be much, much higher. Allan...
View ArticleA misconfigured AWS bucket exposed personal and counseling logs of almost...
On July 17, this site reported on a leak by a vendor, Medico, Inc., that exposed 300,000 patients’ insurance billing-related records. Today, we report on another leak – this one by another vendor –...
View ArticleMore Than 4 Billions of Record Exposed from an Unknown Elastic Search Database
Leon writes: In March 2019, I found an unsecured Elasticsearch database which contains more than 4 billion records. The database was sensitive as it contains a lot of PII details as well as...
View ArticleA newly discovered hacking group is targeting energy and telecoms companies
Zack Whittaker reports: There’s a new hacking group on the radar targeting telecommunications and oil and gas companies across Africa and the Middle East. Industrial security company Dragos, which...
View ArticleClothing marketplace Poshmark confirms data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: Poshmark, an online marketplace for buying and selling clothes, has reported a data breach. The company said in a brief blog post that user profile information, including names...
View ArticleUp to Ten Thousand Customers Possibly Affected in Aegon Life Insurance Data Leak
Anuj Srivas reports: New Delhi: The personal data of up to 10,000 customers of Aegon Life Insurance customers may have been exposed publicly due to a security vulnerability on the company’s website....
View ArticleU.S. indicts three over alleged phishing campaign targeting universities,...
Bradley Barth reports: The Department of Justice has indicted two Americans and a Nigerian on multiple charges for their alleged roles in a phishing scheme that targeted college employees, banks and...
View ArticleNigerian National Involved in Business E-Mail Compromise Scheme Sentenced to...
John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STANLEY HUGOCHUKWU NWOKE, also known as “Stanley Banks,” “Banks,” “Hugo Banks,” “Banky,” and “Jose Calderon,” 28,...
View ArticleStockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data
Zack Whittaker reports: It wasn’t “system updates” as it claimed. StockX was mopping up after a data breach, TechCrunch can confirm. The fashion and sneaker trading platform pushed out a password reset...
View ArticleE3 Website Accidentally Doxed Contact Info for 2,000 Journalists
Michael Kan reports: The organizer behind the E3 gaming convention has messed up bad by accidentally leaking the contact information to more than 2,000 journalists who attended the show this year. For...
View ArticleIkea says sorry for customer data breach due to email gaffe
Malavika Menon reports: Swedish retailer Ikea yesterday apologised to affected customers in Singapore after the company inserted 410 individual e-mail addresses in the wrong message field of a...
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