Tag: data loss

January 4, 2022

Hospitality chain McMenamins discloses a data breach after a ransomware attack that took place on December 12. McMenamins is a family-owned chain of brewpubs, breweries, music venues, historic hotels, and theater pubs in Oregon and Washington. According to the company, […]

August 24, 2021

More than 38 million records from 47 different entities that rely on Microsoft’s Power Apps portals platform were inadvertently left exposed online, bringing into sharp focus a “new vector of data exposure.” “The types of data varied between portals, including […]

August 17, 2021

A security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records that were exposed on the internet for three weeks between July 19 and August 9, 2021. In July, Diachenko discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch cluster containing 1.9 […]

July 12, 2021

Threat actors have once again managed to scrape data from over 600 million user profiles on LinkedIn, and have put it up for sale for an undisclosed sum, according to reports. This incident, says CyberNews, is the third time in […]

June 30, 2021

You might be forgiven for thinking that every day is social media day, given how much gets shared each day via social media services. For the past 11 years, however – yes, we’ve been addicted to social media for at […]

May 26, 2021

A total of 878.17 million data records were compromised worldwide in January 2021 alone, more than in the entire 12 months of 2017, setting 2021 on course to be a record-breaker in terms of breach volumes. That is according to […]

April 7, 2021

Some University of California employees and students are being threatened by cybercriminals following a data breach within the University of California system. It appears the threat actors were able to copy and transfer files from the UC database by exploiting […]

March 23, 2021

Energy giant Shell disclosed a data breach resulting from the compromise of an Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) used by the company. Shell is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company with more than 86,000 employees and mede US$180.5 billion […]

February 5, 2021

French security vendor Stormshield has launched an investigation after an internal review found that hackers accessed the source code of the company’s network security product. On Thursday, Stormshield acknowledged the company had sustained a breach and that unknown hackers had […]

January 4, 2021

Established in 1997 and headquartered in Farmingdale, New York, Apex Laboratory provides medical testing services in the New York Metropolitan and surrounding areas. In 2007, Apex opened a South Florida location. In a data breach notification published last week, the […]

October 14, 2020

Hackers have stolen nearly a terabyte of data from a Miami-based tech firm, leaking a number of the pilfered files (including full credit-card information, scans of sensitive documents such as passports, bank statements and financial documents, and even customer databases) […]

September 25, 2020

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that a hacker breached a US federal agency and threat actors exfiltrated data. CISA published a detailed incident report related to the incident but didn’t disclose the name of the hacked agency. Threat […]

September 15, 2020

The data breach involved an online application pertaining to the Financial Services Center (FSC), which was accessed by “unauthorized users to divert payments to community health care providers for the medical treatment of Veterans.” The application was taken offline and […]

August 18, 2020

Cruise ship operator Carnival Corporation has reported that it has fallen victim to an unspecified ransomware attack which has accessed and encrypted a portion of one of its brand’s IT systems – and the personal data of both its customers […]

June 22, 2020

The files were made available by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDOS), a WikiLeaks-style organization that describes itself as a “transparency collective” whose goal is the “free transmission of data in the public interest.” The leak, dubbed BlueLeaks, includes information collected […]

June 4, 2020

The US is protected by what’s known as a nuclear triad: a three-pronged attack force that consists of land-launched nuclear missiles, nuclear missiles on submarines, and aircraft equipped with nuclear bombs and missiles. One of the triad’s legs – the […]

April 8, 2020

Researchers at German pentesting company Enable Security just published an intriguing blog post about a security problem they found in the popular online collaboration tool Slack. The short version is that they uncovered a way to poke around inside the […]

March 27, 2020

One of the most popular Dark Web hosting services, Daniel’s Hosting (DH), has been slaughtered. Again. Daniel Wizen, the German software developer who runs DH, said that this time, the provider of free hosting services is kaput… at least for […]

March 12, 2020

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 […]

February 19, 2020

Data. Your business and computers are full of it. While much of that data is useless to anyone else, every firm has key assets that any attacker or other competitor would love to access. Data can leave your organization in […]