Breaches and Incidents

Seventeen companies have been informed of cyberattacks that compromised user information by New York Attorney General Letitia James following an investigation into credential stuffing. More than 1 million customer accounts were compromised due to the attacks, which James said were previously undetected.  There have been more than 1.1 million online accounts compromised in a series of credential-stuffing …

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Photography company Shutterfly announced that it has been suffered from a ransomware attack that had impacted some services. In a statement, the company said portions of the Lifetouch and BorrowLenses business were affected. They experienced interruptions with Groovebook, manufacturing offices, and some corporate systems as well. “We engaged third-party cybersecurity experts, informed law enforcement, and …

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Tech manufacturing giant Panasonic has confirmed that its network was accessed illegally this month during a cyberattack. Panasonic has disclosed a security breach wherein an unauthorized third party broke into its network and potentially accessed data from one of its file servers. The Japanese consumer electronics giant acknowledged the breach in a brief statement on Friday (November …

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Japanese electronic components manufacturer Murata has released an apology Notice for the data breach of thousands of files in June that contained bank account information of employees and business partners of the company. Murata Manufacturing CEO Norio Nakajima stated on June 28 apologizing for the case where a subcontractor downloaded a project management data file …

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A team of Cybersecurity researchers at Wizcase found major data exposure of Over 80 US Municipalities due to the Misconfigured Amazon S3 Bucket. This happened because all of them using the same web service provider aimed at municipalities. This breach compromised citizens’ physical addresses, phone numbers, IDs, tax documents, and more.  Due to the large …

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Pegasus was developed by the Tel Aviv, Israel-based cyber intelligence and security firm NSO Group. Pegasus spyware is also known as Q Suite and Trident. It is the name for perhaps the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed – certainly by a private company. Once it has wormed its way onto your phone, without …

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Interpol announced today that Moroccan authorities arrested a suspect Nicknamed as “Dr. HeX”. The two-year investigation, dubbed Operation Lyrebird by the international, intergovernmental organization, resulted in the arrest of a Moroccan cybercriminal. Law enforcement authorities with Interpol perceived to be a threat actor that is responsible for targeting thousands of innocent people over several years and malware …

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Social networking Site LinkedIn Suffers Data Breach of its 700mn users, But LinkedIn denies allegations. The data exposed includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, industry information, physical addresses, geolocation records, and salaries of the users. A user on RaidForums put the data up for sale late last week. The user tried to sell the information …

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The popular mobile app that drivers use to pay and find available public parking in Pittsburgh and in other cities experienced a data breach several weeks ago that affected 21 million users nationwide. ParkMobile is an Atlanta, GA-based company that offers a free app allowing users to find open parking spaces across the United States …

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Indian start-ups have been hit with a string of data breaches in recent days, and Mumbai-based digital supply-chain giant Bizongo reportedly became the latest name in the list on Tuesday. Bizongo, an online packaging marketplace has suffered a data leak in which the company left highly sensitive customer information unsecured and potentially exposed to hackers and other …

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