Experian, T-Mobile US settle data spills for mere $16m Two breaches: one in 2012, another in 2015 – saw 18m folks' records stolen Cyber-crime08 Nov 2022 | 4
Breached health insurer won't pay ransom to protect customers, warns of more attacks Australia's Medibank uses a government-approved Band-Aid to cover a gaping 10-milion-record wound Cyber-crime07 Nov 2022 | 14
Royal Mail customer data leak shutters online Click and Drop Customers complain of exposed order info, multiple charges — but still no postage Security03 Nov 2022 | 25
Education tech giant gets an F for security after sensitive info on 40 million users stolen Chegg it out: Four blunders in four years CSO31 Oct 2022 | 6
Health insurer Medibank's data breach diagnosis keeps getting worse All four million customers at risk of having records of medical treatments exposed Cyber-crime26 Oct 2022 | 11
FTC slaps down Drizly CEO after 2.4m user records stolen from 'careless' booze app biz Analysis At least this'll give some ammo to CISOs dying for stronger IT defenses CSO26 Oct 2022 | 10
Alert: This ransomware preys on healthcare orgs via weak-ass VPN servers FBI, CISA warn of Daixin gang after OakBend Medical Center hit Cyber-crime24 Oct 2022 | 1
Blazing South Korean datacenter operator raided by cops, blames its own batteries Asia In Brief PLUS: Australia boosts data breach fines; India outlet drops Meta allegations; AWS spices up Thailand's cloud; and more Off-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 2
Oops, web trackers may have leaked 3 million patients' info Scream with us: Aaaaaa-AAH CSO20 Oct 2022 | 35
Cost of a health insurance security breach? NY watchdogs say it's $4.5m Hundreds of thousands of people's sensitive info poorly protected CSO19 Oct 2022 | 1
Verizon prepaid accounts hijacked by SIM swap crooks Nightmare for those with one-time security codes texted to their phones Security19 Oct 2022 | 7
Store credit card numbers in a debug log, lose millions of accounts. Cost? $1.9m That's roughly 300,000 Shein crop tops Cyber-crime14 Oct 2022 | 4
Mormon Church IT ransacked, data stolen by 'state-sponsored' cyber-thieves Don't get your underwear in a twist Cyber-crime14 Oct 2022 | 53
Insurer Medibank hit by targeted cyberattack Hot on heels of Optus and Dialog breaches, criminals turn sights to insurance sector Cyber-crime13 Oct 2022 | 1
Optus data breach prompts pincer movement of twin regulatory probes Data retention requirements to be considered alongside infosec failings Security11 Oct 2022 | 4
Toyota dev left key to customer info on public GitHub page for five years 'Oh what a feeling' when your contractor leaks site source code Security11 Oct 2022 | 8
Intel Alder Lake BIOS code leak may contain vital secrets Gurus say source includes secret hardware info, private signing key for Boot Guard protection Security10 Oct 2022 | 13
Singtel confirms digital burglary at Dialog subsidiary Second of Singapore telco's Australian businesses to be prised open by criminals in weeks Cyber-crime10 Oct 2022 |
No Shangri-La for you: Top hotel chain confirms data leak In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree Security05 Oct 2022 | 7
BlackCat malware lashes out at US defense IT contractor In Brief Also, Amazon's Ring footage TV shows draws criticism, US v Soviet spying docs found, and more Security02 Oct 2022 | 12
Samsung sued for gobbling up too much personal info that miscreants then stole If you're gonna force everyone to register an account, at least protect that data, lawsuit argues Cyber-crime27 Sep 2022 | 9
Significant customer data exposed in attack on Australian telco Updated Subscribers have questions – like 'When were you going to tell us?' Cyber-crime23 Sep 2022 | 14
Uber explains how it was pwned this month, points finger at Lapsus$ gang From annoying MFA alerts to 'several internal systems' infiltrated CSO19 Sep 2022 | 26
Cisco: Yes, Yanluowang leaked our data. No, it's not serious Everything's fine! Security13 Sep 2022 | 4
Shape-shifting cryptominer savages Linux endpoints and IoT In brief Also, Authorities seize WT1SHOP selling 5.8m sets of PII, The North Face users face tough security hike Security10 Sep 2022 | 10
Cyberattack brings down InterContinental Hotels' booking systems Online booking systems and other services knocked offline amid network intrusion Cyber-crime06 Sep 2022 | 16
NATO investigates after criminals claim to be selling its stolen missile plans In brief Also, Microsoft’s one-click TikTok trick, a 14-year old Aussie cracks ASD encryption in an hour, and more Security05 Sep 2022 | 16
Now Oktapus gets access to some DoorDash customer info via phishing attack Double check who exactly you're sending your username and password to, eh? Cyber-crime26 Aug 2022 | 8
Attacker snags account details from streaming service Plex 'Limited subset' of users have emails, usernames, and hashed passwords stolen from the platform Cyber-crime24 Aug 2022 | 18
Smartphone gyroscopes threaten air-gapped systems, researcher finds Network interface card LEDs are a risk too by blinking in Morse code CSO23 Aug 2022 | 54
Higher risks and premiums are creating critical gap in cyber insurance Black Hat Most organizations don’t have the financial resources necessary to address ransomware and other cyberattacks, BlackBerry says Security11 Aug 2022 | 4
Samsung adds 'repair mode' that hides data on Galaxy smartphones in South Korea Something Hunter Biden probably wishes computers had ages ago Personal Tech01 Aug 2022 | 8
BreachForums booms on the back of billion-record Chinese data leak Plenty of recent users appear to be from China, and hoping for more leaks of local data Security29 Jul 2022 |
Businesses confess: We pass cyberattack costs onto customers Cover an average of $4.4 million per raid ourselves? No chance, mate Security29 Jul 2022 | 21
US court system suffered 'incredibly significant attack' – sealed files at risk Effects still being felt today across US government Security29 Jul 2022 | 15
LockBit ransomware gang claims it ransacked Italy’s tax agency Miscreants boast of 78GB haul, officials say everything's fine Security26 Jul 2022 | 7
T-Mobile US to cough up $550m after info stolen on 77m customers Oops, did the Un-carrier under-count by 29m punters? CSO25 Jul 2022 | 8
Twitter launches probe after miscreants claim to have swiped 5.4m users' details And yes, Musk is back in the headlines, denying another affair Cyber-crime25 Jul 2022 | 8
Microsoft sunsets Windows built-in data leak prevention The alternative is a paid subscription service. What's the bet it's more expensive than the current offering? Software22 Jul 2022 | 10
Walmart-controlled flight booking service suffers substantial data leak India's Cleartrip is being very opaque about what happened Security19 Jul 2022 | 7
Alibaba execs hauled in to discuss Shanghai Police data leak Asia In Brief Plus: Weibo cracks down on political puns; Singaporean crypto biz Vauld restructures; Philippines fights Facebook rumors Security18 Jul 2022 | 2
Digital burglary at recruitment agency Morgan Hunt confirmed Third-party software developer blamed for 'improperly storing credentials to our database' Security15 Jul 2022 | 19
1.9m patient records exposed in healthcare debt collector ransomware attack The P in PFC now stands for Pwned Cyber-crime13 Jul 2022 | 23
Leaked Uber docs reveal frequent use of 'kill switch' to deactivate tech, thwart investigators Staff told to tell cops that the IT team was in San Francisco, asleep, and couldn't restore systems Personal Tech11 Jul 2022 | 98
How data on a billion people may have leaked from a Chinese police dashboard Record-breaking dump thanks to password-less Kibana endpoint? Research10 Jul 2022 | 24
Marriott Hotels admits to third data breach in 4 years Updated Digital thieves made off with 20GB of internal documents and customer data Security06 Jul 2022 | 35
Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum Appears to have leaked from a cloud thanks to sloppy coding Cyber-crime05 Jul 2022 | 15
OpenSea phishing threat after rogue insider leaks customer email addresses Worse, imagine someone finding out you bought one of its NFTs Cyber-crime30 Jun 2022 | 9
California state's gun control websites expose personal data And some of it may have been leaked on social media Security30 Jun 2022 | 66
AMD targeted by RansomHouse, attackers claim to have '450Gb' in stolen data Relative cybercrime newbies not clear on whether they're alleging to have gigabits or gigabytes of chip biz files Cyber-crime28 Jun 2022 | 7
Carnival Cruises torpedoed by US states, agrees to pay $6m after wave of cyberattacks Now those are some phishing boats Cyber-crime28 Jun 2022 | 17
Halfords suffers a puncture in the customer details department I like driving in my car, hope my data's not gone far Security23 Jun 2022 | 58
Info on 1.5m people stolen from US bank in cyberattack Time to rethink that cybersecurity strategy? Cyber-crime21 Jun 2022 | 24
There are 24.6 billion pairs of credentials for sale on dark web In brief Plus: Citrix ASM has some really bad bugs, and more Security20 Jun 2022 | 3
Elasticsearch server with no password or encryption leaks a million records POS and online ordering vendor StoreHub offered free Asian info takeaways Security16 Jun 2022 | 22
Verizon: Ransomware sees biggest jump in five years We're only here for DBIRs Research26 May 2022 | 6
Millions of people's info stolen from MGM Resorts dumped on Telegram for free Meanwhile, Twitter coughs up $150m after using account security contact details for advertising Cyber-crime25 May 2022 | 11
India gives local techies 60 days to hit 6-hour deadline for infosec incident reporting Customer data collection and retention requirements also increased, including for crypto operators Security29 Apr 2022 | 3
Coca-Cola probes pro-Kremlin gang's claims of 161GB data theft Life tastes not so good right now Cyber-crime26 Apr 2022 | 18
Intuit sued over alleged cryptocurrency thefts via Mailchimp intrusion Financial software giant slammed for 'poor security practices' Cyber-crime25 Apr 2022 | 13
So, what happened with GitHub, Heroku, and those raided private repos? Analysis Who knew what when and what did they do? Devops21 Apr 2022 | 10
Broader investment in cybersecurity beginning to pay dividends Improved defenses give organizations more room to negotiate but won't protect from lawsuits, says law firm Security07 Apr 2022 |