Movistar Suffers Cyber Attack Exposes Customer Data
Movistar suffered last week a cyber attack that exposed the personal information of thousands of your customers. The company has informed Friday users affected by the “irregular access” to your computer systems by SMS, as elDiario.es has advanced and has been able to confirm El Periódico de Catalunya. That message indicates that security breach has […]
All the ways you’re being surveilled COVID-19 | efani Partner TheNFG.org
The days of working from home while lounging in your sweats and cuddling with your pandemic pet may be over. Now, employers want to ensure you’re as productive as possible — by using surveillance technology. Since the start of the pandemic, demand for employee surveillance measures jumped 54%, according to research by online privacy review […]
efani Coinbase hit with Class Action Hacked Accounts
The suit names Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) and up to 50 as-yet unnamed executives and employees as defendants over data breaches by Coinbase which the suit says led to consumers losing their digital assets to hackers. The plaintiff bringing the suit is Adam Alfia, a trader who was the victim of a hack […]
efani Lister Fertility Clinic Patients Exposed to Ransomware
Jay Jay reports: In a letter sent to about 1,700 patients, Lister Fertility Clinic said that a ransomware attack on Stor-a-file Limited, a firm that scans medical records for the clinic, compromised the sensitive information of patients. […] The document management firm said that the ransomware attack affected 13 organizations, six of them in the […]
Tracking Hacks U.S. Accuses Russian of Money Laundering
Robert McMillan and Kevin Poulsen report: A Moscow entrepreneur was detained during a vacation abroad this month and is now facing extradition to the U.S. on charges that he helped a notorious Russian ransomware group launder payments. The case marks the first arrest in connection with the Ryuk ransomware group, which gained notoriety with a […]
Report: Multiple data breaches common in past year | efani SAFE?
A new report from Cornell University and FreedomPay found that stakeholders were almost universally satisfied with internal risk assessment processes (96%) and cybersecurity systems (95%), despite the reality that one in three (31%) has experienced a data breach in the past. Among companies that had suffered a breach, most (89%) had experienced multiple breaches in […]
Costco Alerts Customers about Credit Card Breach | efani SAFE?
Costco customers at four of the retailer’s Chicago-area warehouses may have had their payment information compromised after employees discovered five card-skimming devices during routine PIN pad inspections at the end of August. “We promptly removed the skimmers, notified law enforcement, and engaged a forensics firm to analyze the devices,” A Costco spokesperson told FOX Business […]
Hackers’ Breach of Australian Regional Water Supplier Went Undetected 9 Months
Australia’s Queensland’s largest regional water supplier, Sunwater, says hackers targeted it in a cyber security breach that went undetected for nine months. Last year, the hackers left suspicious files on a webserver to redirect visitor traffic to an online video platform. The breach occurred between August 2020 and May 2021 and involved unauthorized access to […]
CynergisTek Reports Supply Chain Risks Continue Driving Demand for Vendor Security
CynergisTek (NYSE American: CTEK), leading cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and IT audit firm helping organizations in highly regulated industries navigate emerging security and privacy issues, announces a one-year Vendor Security Management service agreement with a nationally recognized children’s hospital with multiple locations. The healthcare industry relies on third-party vendors to deliver a wide range of goods […]
RedDoorz fined $54k for 2020 data breach | efani Partner TheNFG.org
After the attack, RedDoorz amended its credential policy and implemented two-factor authentication for all developers’ tools and accounts. Millions of RedDoorz’s user records were sold on underground forums in September and October last year. The compromised data included the customers’ names, contact numbers, hashed passwords, and booking information, but the report noted that masked credit […]