A. J. Dellinger reports: Home improvement startup Houzz suffered informed its users on Thursday, January 31, that it suffered a data breach. The company has not provided details about the occurrence but contacted its users to encourage them to change their passwords as a precautionary measure to prevent accounts from being compromised. Houzz informed its…
Month: January 2019
Vale é hackeada e documentos mostram como empresa lida com acidentes (Vale is hacked; documents show how company handles accidents)
The following is a Google translation of a news report by Felipe Payao: The Brazilian multinational mining company Vale was invaded and supposedly confidential internal documents were withdrawn and leaked by invaders. Hackers would have taken advantage of an open software toolbox for team collaboration to retrieve minutes and extract security incidents and incidents around the…
In: SBI denies data leak charges, but customers be on alert
Saikat Das reports: State Bank of India, the country’s biggest lender, said that the data of its customers are safe and that it is continuing to probe the systems for a potential breach of security after a Techcrunch report on data compromise at the bank. “Basis our initial probe, we hereby confirm that SBI’s data…
ANA Suffers Phishing Attack, Possible Theft Of Data
Wendy Davis reports: The Association of National Advertisers suffered a phishing attack last year that may have resulted in the theft of employee data, including names and social security numbers, MediaPost has learned. The ANA said in a January 24 letter to former employees that it learned last October of a “possible data security incident.”…
Dutch DPA Publishes 2018 Report on Data Breach Statistics
On January 29, 2019, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, the “Dutch DPA”) published a report (in Dutch) on the personal data breach notifications received in 2018 (the “Report”). The EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) requires data controllers to notify a personal data breach to the competent Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) within…
FABEN Obstetrics and Gynecology notifies more than 6,000 patients after ransomware attack
On November 21, the FABEN OB/GYN practice in Florida got infected with GandCrab ransomware. They do not disclose how that happened, but the problem was detected quickly. To mitigate any damage or risk, FABEN decided to delete the infected files and restore files from backups. But they didn’t have backups of all files. Any files…