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Data loss, Threats & Malware

Samsung UK discloses year-long breach, leaked customer data

November 17, 2023

Via: The Register

The UK division of Samsung Electronics has allegedly alerted customers of a year-long data security breach – the third such incident the South Korean giant has experienced around the world in the past two years. An email to customers, shared […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Okta tells 5,000 of its own staff that their data was accessed in third-party breach

November 2, 2023

Via: The Register

Okta has sent out breach notifications to almost 5,000 current and former employees, warning them that miscreants breached one of its third-party vendors and stole a file containing staff names, social security numbers, and health or medical insurance plan numbers. […]


Threats & Malware, Vulnerabilities

T-Mobile US exposes some customer data – but don’t call it a breach

September 25, 2023

Via: The Register

T-Mobile US has had another bad week on the infosec front – this time stemming from a system glitch that exposed customer account data, followed by allegations of another breach the carrier denied. According to customers who complained of the […]


Cyber-crime, Identity theft

TransUnion reckons big dump of stolen customer data came from someone else

September 21, 2023

Via: The Register

Days after a miscreant boasted leaking a 3GB-plus database from TransUnion containing financial information on 58,505 people, the credit-checking agency has claimed the info was actually swiped from a third party. On Sunday, a thief using the handle USDoD shared […]


Cyber-crime, Malware

Super-Yacht Specialist Lürssen in Dry Dock After Ransomware Attack

April 13, 2023

Via: Dark Reading

German shipbuilder Lürssen, known for making super yachts for the exorbitantly wealthy, experienced a ransomware attack over Easter weekend that has incapacitated operations. With a high revenue — it has an expected annual revenue of nearly $2.2 billion this year […]


Cyber-crime, Identity theft

GoTo admits: Customer cloud backups stolen together with decryption key

January 25, 2023

Via: Naked Security

GoTo is a well-known brand that owns a range of products, including technologies for teleconferencing and webinars, remote access, and password management. If you’ve ever used GoTo Webinar (online meetings and seminars), GoToMyPC (connect and control someone else’s computer for […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

Ransomware Shuts Hundreds of Yum Brands Restaurants in UK

January 20, 2023

Via: Security Week

A government filing posted Thursday says the attack impacted information technology systems. Yum Brands said the attackers took company data, but that there is no evidence customer data was stolen. Around 300 U.K. stores were closed for one day but […]


Cyber-crime, Identity theft

Hackers Steal Power Utility Customer Data

December 27, 2022

Via: DataBreach Today

A Chicago construction and engineering firm that designs power grids is telling consumers it detected “unauthorized activity” that resulted in the theft of names and Social Security numbers. According to a report by CNN, a memo distributed to members of […]


Hacker, Threats & Malware

Hackers Breach Okta’s GitHub Repositories, Steal Source Code

December 22, 2022

Via: The Hacker News

Okta, a company that provides identity and access management services, disclosed on Wednesday that some of its source code repositories were accessed in an unauthorized manner earlier this month. “There is no impact to any customers, including any HIPAA, FedRAMP […]


Cyber-crime, Phishing

Twilio-Linked Phishing Campaign Also Targets DoorDash

August 27, 2022

Via: DataBreach Today

Food delivery firm DoorDash says its customer and employees’ data was compromised by the recent phishing attack on its third-party service provider. DoorDash says it experienced “unusual and suspicious activity” on its third-party vendor’s computer network that was a victim […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Adafruit suffers GitHub data breach – don’t let this happen to you

March 7, 2022

Via: Naked Security

Popular open-source computer hardware company Adafruit Industries accidentally exposed customer data… …via the GitHub account of a former employee. As you’ve probably figured out already, Adafruit is named after after Ada Lovelace, a nineteenth-century British intellectual who was a computer […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

What’s Behind the Leaks of Customer Data From Retailer Databases?

September 13, 2021

Via: Security Intelligence

Retail data breaches involving customer data happen often today. However, they tend to be smaller in size than health care, finance or government breaches. So, the general public notices them less. Yet, they happen more often than realized. Why? And […]


Privacy protection, Security

Pub apps harvesting swathes of customer data unnecessarily

August 19, 2021

Via: Computer Weekly

Food and beverage-ordering apps run by Mitchells & Butlers, the company behind chains such as All Bar One, Browns and Harvester, as well as pubco Greene King, have emerged as some of the most data-hungry apps in the hospitality sector, […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Data of millions of eBay and Amazon shoppers exposed

March 12, 2020

Via: Naked Security

Researchers have discovered another big database containing millions of European customer records left unsecured on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for anyone to find using a search engine. A total of eight million records were involved, collected via marketplace and payment […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Big Microsoft data breach – 250 million records exposed

January 22, 2020

Via: Naked Security

Microsoft has today announced a data breach that affected one of its customer databases. The blog article, entitled Access Misconfiguration for Customer Support Databases, admits that between 05 December 2019 and 31 December 2019, a database used for “support case […]


Privacy protection

ISP privacy – how much should it cost?

April 10, 2017

Via: We Live Security

It used to be that you paid for bandwidth from a provider and that’s exactly what you got. Now, with ever-expanding efforts to profit, ISPs have started to monetize customer information quietly while selling them bandwidth. The temptation is strong, […]


Network security, Privacy protection

Lawmakers set to overturn broadband privacy rules, as ISPs requested

February 24, 2017

Via: Naked Security

Congress is looking to undo recently passed broadband privacy rules that industry groups have called “dysfunctional” and that consumer groups call important to ensuring that ISPs can’t sell customers’ data without their consent. A week ago, Republican senator Jeff Flake […]


Data loss

BA Blamed for Major Breach of Insurer’s Data

December 23, 2016

Via: DataBreach Today

Community Health Plan of Washington, a not-for-profit insurance company, says a security vulnerability on the computer network of a business associate that provides it with technical services resulted in a breach affecting nearly 400,000 individuals. CHPW, founded by a network […]


Privacy protection

Tech companies like Privacy Shield but worry about legal challenges

December 22, 2016

Via: InfoWorld

Privacy Shield, the new international framework allowing companies to transfer customer data between the EU and the U.S., is getting good reviews so far, but some companies aren’t betting on it for the long term. Companies using Privacy Shield worry that […]


Network security

Uber now collecting location data even after you leave a driver’s car

December 2, 2016

Via: Naked Security

Last year, Uber gave us a heads-up about its new privacy policy and how it had given itself permission to routinely track our locations even after we’ve left the car, following us as we sally forth into businesses, cross the […]