UK Privacy Watchdog Warns SolarWinds Victims To Report Data Breaches United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned organizations that fell victim to the SolarWinds hack that they are required to report data breaches within three days after their discovery. The UK independent authority urged organizations using compromised versions of the Read more…
Twitter Fined By EU Data Protection Watchdog For GDPR Breach Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Twitter €450,000 (~$550,000) for failing to notify the DPC of a breach within the 72-hour timeframe imposed by European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and to adequately document it. The GDPR is a user and data Read more…
K12 Online Schooling Giant Pays Ryuk Ransomware To Stop Data Leak Online education giant K12 Inc. has paid a ransom after their systems were hit by Ryuk ransomware in the middle of November. K12 creates tailored online learning curriculums for students to learn from home while in kindergarten through 12th Read more…
Android App Still Exposing Messages Of 100M Users Despite Bug Fix GO SMS Pro, an Android instant messaging app with more than 100 million installs, is still exposing the privately shared messages of millions of users even though the developer has been working on a fix for the flaw behind the data leak Read more…
Healthcare Provider AspenPointe Data Breach Affects 295K Patients U.S. healthcare provider AspenPointe notified patients of a data breach stemming from a September 2020 cyberattack that enabled attackers to steal protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII). AspenPointe is a nonprofit funded by Medicaid, state, federal, and local government contracts, as well as donations, Read more…
IoT Chip Maker Advantech Confirms Ransomware Attack, Data Theft 11/30/20 Update below. This post was originally published on November 28th, 2020. It has been updated to reflect Advantech’s confirmation of the attack. Industrial automation and Industrial IoT (IIoT) chip maker Advantech confirmed a ransomware attack that hit its network and led to the Read more…
CBS Last.fm Fixes Admin Password Leakage Via Symfony Profiler This week, British music streaming service, Last.fm has fixed a credential leakage issue that revealed admin username and password. The leak had occurred due to a misconfigured PHP Symfony app running in “debug” mode and exposing profiler logs. With these credentials, an attacker could have accessed and Read more…
Ransomware Hits Largest US Fertility Network, Patient Data Stolen US Fertility, the largest network of fertility centers in the U.S., says that some of its systems were encrypted in a ransomware attack that affected the company two months ago, in September 2020. The US Fertility (USF) network is comprised of 55 locations Read more…
Sophos Alerts Customers Of Info Exposure After Security Breach British cybersecurity and hardware company Sophos has emailed a small group of customers to alert them that their personal information was exposed following a security breach discovered on Tuesday. The exposed customer data was accessible to unauthorized parties due to a Read more…
Belden Networking Giant’s Company Data Stolen In Cyberattack Network device manufacturer Belden was hit with a cyberattack that allowed threat actors to steal files containing information about employees and business partners. Belden is a US-based manufacturer of network connectivity devices, including routers, firewalls, switches, cabling, and connectors. Belden generated $2.5 billion in Read more…
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