November 17, 2023
Via: The RegisterThe 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 […]
November 2, 2023
Via: The RegisterOkta 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
September 25, 2023
Via: The RegisterT-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 […]
September 21, 2023
Via: The RegisterDays 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 […]
April 13, 2023
Via: Dark ReadingGerman 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 […]
January 25, 2023
Via: Naked SecurityGoTo 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
January 20, 2023
Via: Security WeekA 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 […]
December 27, 2022
Via: DataBreach TodayA 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 […]
December 22, 2022
Via: The Hacker NewsOkta, 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 […]
August 27, 2022
Via: DataBreach TodayFood 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 […]
March 7, 2022
Via: Naked SecurityPopular 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 […]
September 13, 2021
Via: Security IntelligenceRetail 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 […]
August 19, 2021
Via: Computer WeeklyFood 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, […]
March 12, 2020
Via: Naked SecurityResearchers 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 […]
January 22, 2020
Via: Naked SecurityMicrosoft 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 […]
April 10, 2017
Via: We Live SecurityIt 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
February 24, 2017
Via: Naked SecurityCongress 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 […]
December 23, 2016
Via: DataBreach TodayCommunity 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 […]
December 22, 2016
Via: InfoWorldPrivacy 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 […]
December 2, 2016
Via: Naked SecurityLast 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 […]