Collaborate Disseminate
Carly Page reports: U.S. access and identity management giant Okta says hackers stole data about all of its customers during a recent breach of its support systems, despite previously stating that only a fraction of customers were affected. Okta confir… Continue reading Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach
Paulina Okunytė reports: KidSecurity, a popular parental control app that’s used to track children, has exposed its activity logs, leaving users’ private data in the hands of threat actors. With more than a million downloads on Google Play, KidSe… Continue reading KidSecurity’s user data compromised after app failed to set password
Bill Toulas reports: A ransomware attack on the “Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore” MMORPG last Friday destroyed 17,000 player accounts, deleting their in-game items and progress in the game. Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore is a free-to-play old-school MMO… Continue reading Ransomware attack on indie game maker wiped all player accounts
On October 15, Henry Schein, Inc. disclosed a breach: On Saturday, October 14, Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) determined that a portion of its manufacturing and distribution businesses experienced a cybersecurity incident. Henry Schein promptly took… Continue reading Henry Schein re-encrypted by BlackCat again
Politico reports: Thousands of cyberattacks have inundated Europe’s energy grid since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and a top industry leader is calling for help as officials and researchers fret that not nearly enough is being done. “The c… Continue reading Europe’s grid is under a cyberattack deluge, industry warns
Tonya Riley reports: IBM Corp. and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. face a Florida man’s proposed class action over an August data breach that potentially exposed the personal health information of more than a half-million people. Plainti… Continue reading IBM, Johnson & Johnson Hit With Second Health Data Breach Suit
Jurgita Lapienytė reports: A Korean IT company developing and selling enterprise software has leaked over 50 million sensitive records. The 2 TB-strong Kibana dashboard has been exposed for over two years. Cybernews researchers discovered it back in Ja… Continue reading Enterprise software provider Tmax leaks 2TB of data
Sabelo Skiti reports: Two of the country’s largest consumer credit reporting agencies, TransUnion and Experian, may have been hit by a fresh data hack, potentially exposing the financial and personal data of South Africans to risk. The hackers, the Bra… Continue reading Za: Hackers demand $60m from TransUnion and Experian, claiming data theft
Khine Zin Htet reports: On Nov. 7, 2023, MBS announced a breach of the personal data of 665,000 Marina Bay Sands (MBS) LifeStyle reward members by an “unknown third party” on Oct. 19 and 20, 2023. Following that, the government addressed th… Continue reading Sg: 665,000 MBS members data leak: Govt to investigate if there was ‘significant harm’
An editorial in The Asahi Shimbun begins: A prolonged, systemic failure in data security management resulted in a 10-year leak of personal information in about 9 million cases stored at a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. (NTT Wes… Continue reading Decade-long data leak raises serious concerns with NTT group