Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished Scottish health group to tweak security checks, access authorization to avoid a repeat Security01 Dec 2023 | 98
Admin of $19M marketplace that sold social security numbers gets 8 years in jail 24 million Americans thought to have had their personal data stolen and sold for pennies Cyber-crime30 Nov 2023 | 12
Okta data breach dilemma dwarfs earlier estimates All customer support users told their info was accessed after analysis oversight Security29 Nov 2023 | 14
British Library begins contacting customers as Rhysida leaks data dump CRM databases were accessed and library users are advised to change passwords Cyber-crime29 Nov 2023 | 5
Ukraine cyber spies claim Putin's planes are in peril as sanctions bite Aeroflot fleet still has a smoking section, but not for tobacco Public Sector28 Nov 2023 | 112
US nuke reactor lab hit by 'gay furry hackers' demanding cat-human mutants Staff records swiped, leaked by gang who probably read one too many comics, sorry, graphic novels Cyber-crime22 Nov 2023 | 99
Sumo Logic wrestles with security breach, pins down customer data Compromised AWS account led to fears that user info could have been exposed to cybercriminals Cyber-crime21 Nov 2023 |
Third-party data breach affecting Canadian government could involve data from 1999 Any govt staffers who used relocation services over past 24 years could be at risk Cyber-crime21 Nov 2023 | 5
Capita scores £239M contract to manage mega public sector pension scheme Cabinet Office clearly over Capita's breach in March that saw pension data exposed to criminals Public Sector21 Nov 2023 | 33
Samsung UK discloses year-long breach, leaked customer data Updated Chaebol already the subject of suits for a pair of past indiscretions Security17 Nov 2023 | 4
Royal Mail cybersecurity still a bit of a mess, infosec bods claim Infosec in brief Also: Most Mainers are MOVEit victims, NY radiology firm fined for not updating kit, and some critical vulnerabilities Security13 Nov 2023 | 8
Okta October breach affected 134 orgs, biz admits Infosec in brief Plus: CVSS 4.0 is here, this week's critical vulns, and 'incident' hit loan broker promises no late fees. Generous Security06 Nov 2023 | 6
Home of the world's longest pleasure pier joins public sector leak club Southend-on-Sea Council unwittingly exposed sensitive records of more than 2,000 staff for five months Public Sector06 Nov 2023 | 26
Finance orgs have 30 days to confess cyber sins under incoming FTC rules Follows similar efforts from the SEC and DHS in recent months Cyber-crime31 Oct 2023 |
LockBit alleges it boarded Boeing, stole 'sensitive data' Security In Brief ALSO: CISA begs for a consistent budget, Las Vegas school breach; Nigeria arrests six cyber princes, the week's critical vulnerabilities Security30 Oct 2023 | 3
Hunters International leaks pre-op plastic surgery pics in negotiation no-no No honor among thieves as group denies Hive ransomware links Cyber-crime25 Oct 2023 | 6
Casio keyed up after data loss hits customers in 149 countries Crooks broke into the ClassPad server and swiped online learning database Cyber-crime19 Oct 2023 | 12
Ex-Navy IT manager gets 5 years in slammer for 2018 database heist Seafaring cybercrim's wife faces similar sentence next month Security19 Oct 2023 | 2
D-Link clears up 'exaggerations' around data breach Who knew 3 million actually means 700 in cybercrime forum lingo? Cyber-crime18 Oct 2023 | 5
Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach Not quite a pound for every one of the 13.8 million affected UK citizens, and it could have been more Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 11
Datacenter cabling biz Volex confirms digital break-in All sites operational, no 'material' financial impact expected but stock markets still worried Cyber-crime09 Oct 2023 |
Chinese smart TV boxes infected with malware in PEACHPIT ad fraud campaign Infosec in brief PLUS: Sony admits to MoveITbreach; Blackbaud fined again, Qakbot's sorta back from the dead; and more Security09 Oct 2023 | 7
Lorenz ransomware crew bungles blackmail blueprint by leaking two years of contacts Data leakers become data leakees Cyber-crime05 Oct 2023 | 10
North Korea's Lazarus Group upgrades its main malware LightningCan evades infosec tools in new and interesting ways Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 4
Now MOVEit maker Progress patches holes in WS_FTP Infosec in brief Plus: Johnson Controls hit by IT 'incident', Exim and Chrome security updates, and more Patches01 Oct 2023 | 9
MOVEit breach delivers bundle of 3.4 million baby records Progress Software vulnerability ID'd in enormous burglary at Ontario's BORN Cyber-crime26 Sep 2023 | 7
Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza Pizza Hut Australia says 190,000 customers' info – including order history – has been accessed Security21 Sep 2023 | 98
The Clorox Company admits cyberattack causing 'widescale disruption' Back to 'manual' order processing for $7B household cleaning biz, financial impact will be 'material' Cyber-crime19 Sep 2023 | 8
Rollbar might be good at tracking bugs, uninvited guests not so much Company noticed data warehouse break-in via compromised account a month later Cyber-crime14 Sep 2023 | 2
Airbus suffers data leak turbulence to cybercrooks' delight Ransomware group nicked info from employee of airline, say researchers Cyber-crime13 Sep 2023 | 1
Capita class action: 2,000 folks affected by data theft sign up Pensioners, employees and medical pros among those aiming to be compensated for data exposure Cyber-crime13 Sep 2023 | 13
Coffee Meets Bagel outage caused by cybercriminals deleting data and files Did you potentially miss the love match of your life in week-long blackout? Nope, nobody could access it Cyber-crime06 Sep 2023 | 3
Meatbag mishaps more menacing than malware? CISOs think so Company boards, on the other hand, aren't letting cybersecurity disturb their sleep as much Research06 Sep 2023 | 6
Northern Ireland's top cop quits after security breach, disciplinary controversy Simon Byrne faced backlash over FoI blunder, plus claims officers were 'punished' to appease Sinn Féin Security05 Sep 2023 | 2
Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm's Windows 7 rig Irony, not barbed wire, cuts the deepest Cyber-crime04 Sep 2023 | 70
Apple opens annual applications for free hackable iPhones Infosec in brief ALSO: Brazilian stalkerware database ripped by the short hairs, a fast fashion breach, and this week's critical vulns Security04 Sep 2023 | 1
More UK cops' names and photos exposed in supplier breach All 47,000 Met Police officers and staff reportedly accessed in break-in Cyber-crime29 Aug 2023 | 36
Health, payment info for 1.2M people feared stolen from Purfoods in IT attack Meal delivery biz leaves bitter taste Cyber-crime28 Aug 2023 | 9
Whiffy malware stinks after tracking location via Wi-FI Infosec in Brief ALSO: Euro chip maker breached, crims plan to undermine cyber insurance, and this week's critical vulnerabilities Security28 Aug 2023 | 12
Leak of 75k employee records was insiders' fault, claims Tesla Identity Access Management? What's that? Security21 Aug 2023 | 11
Japan's digital minister surrenders salary to say sorry for data leaks The My Number card mess remains unsolved as trust in e-government remains muted Security17 Aug 2023 | 15
You're not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies admit to accidentally including raw crime data in FoI responses Security15 Aug 2023 | 59
Florida Man and associates indicted for conspiracy to steal data, software Voting machines and their info allegedly accessed without authorization by keen golfer's gofers Cyber-crime15 Aug 2023 | 306
Cumbrian Police accidentally publish all officers' details online Names, job titles and salaries included in unwitting leak Security14 Aug 2023 | 87
Northern Ireland police may have endangered its own officers by posting details online in error At least it was a blunder and not a hostile attack, unlike what happened to another UK public body this week Security09 Aug 2023 | 31
UK voter data within reach of miscreants who hacked Electoral Commission 'It doesn't help if the organization responsible for the integrity of elections' gets pwned Cyber-crime08 Aug 2023 | 116
Big Tech's going to love India's new personal data protection bill Big fines for breaches. Also big powers – including takedowns – for planned Data Protection Board Legal04 Aug 2023 | 6
What would sustainable security even look like? Opinion Clue: Nothing like what’s on offer today CSO31 Jul 2023 | 40
US senator victim-blames Microsoft for Chinese hack Infosec in brief ALSO: China says US hacked it right back, BreachForums users have been pwned, and this week's critical vulns Security31 Jul 2023 | 10
Lawyer sees almost 1,000 complainants sign up to Capita breach class action 95% pertain to pension schemes administered by outsourcing giant, says Barings Law Cyber-crime21 Jul 2023 | 12
Liberté, Égalité, Spyware: France okays cops snooping on phones Infosec in brief ALSO: Shell fails to learn from past leaks; hundreds of solar plants found open to Mirai; and this week's crit vulns Security10 Jul 2023 | 45
Russian military satellite comms provider offline after hack Infosec in brief ALSO: Ransomware hit on Mancunian Uni spills NHS patient deets, USPTO leaks inventor info, and this week's crit vulns Systems03 Jul 2023 | 6
Miscreants leak texts and info siphoned by Android stalkerware app LetMeSpy Just as America's Supremes set a high bar for cyberstalking Cyber-crime27 Jun 2023 | 10
American and Southwest Airlines pilot candidate data exposed Time to start practising identity protection Cyber-crime26 Jun 2023 | 2
Oreo cookie maker says crooks gobbled up staff info 50K-plus employees' personal info swiped after law firm rolled Cyber-crime20 Jun 2023 | 6
Capita faces first legal Letter of Claim over mega breach Barings Law claims 250 people that 'suspect' data theft signed up to class action Cyber-crime16 Jun 2023 | 15
British Airways, Boots, BBC payroll data stolen in MOVEit supply-chain attack Microsoft blames Russian Clop ransomware crew for theft of staff info Cyber-crime05 Jun 2023 | 27
Toyota admits to yet another cloud leak infosec in brief Also, hackers publish RaidForum user data, Google's $180k Chrome bug bounty, and this week's vulnerabilities Security05 Jun 2023 | 6
Ministry of Justice rapped by ICO for old fashioned data leak Forget AWS buckets, bags of medical and personal info on inmates and their guards left in 'unsecured' area of prison Offbeat25 May 2023 | 2
Apria Healthcare says potentially 2M people caught up in IT security breach Took two years to tell us 'small number of emails' accessed Cyber-crime23 May 2023 | 5
Dish confirms 300,000 people's data was exposed in February's attack But don't worry – we know it was deleted. Hmm. How would you know that? Cyber-crime23 May 2023 | 4
More UK councils caught by Capita's open AWS bucket blunder As for March megabreach? M&S and Guinness maker Diageo warn pension members about data risks Cyber-crime22 May 2023 | 35