Jaspreet Gill reports: Users of the Microsoft Teams platform at Army Futures Command earlier this month potentially exposed personal and health identifying information to an unsecured number of department employees, and AFC is moving to prevent it from happening again, according to a memo obtained by Breaking Defense. Microsoft Teams — the most widely used…
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Kr: Source Music Fined 3 Million Won By PIPC For Accidentally Leaking Fans’ Personal Information
Soompi reports: Source Music has been ordered to pay a fine of 3 million won (approximately $2,438) by South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC). Last year, after GFRIEND’s sudden disbandment, Source Music used a Google questionnaire in the process of refunding fan club membership fees. However, due to the questionnaire’s privacy settings being accidentally set to public,…
Spanish football federation reports data stolen by hackers
The Sun reports: The Spanish football federation (RFEF) said on Thursday it was victim of a hacking attack which resulted in the loss of data belonging to president Luis Rubiales. General secretary Andreu Camps also had text and audio data stolen, the RFEF said, and the loss had been reported to the police. Read more…
Newman Regional Health notifies 52,224 patients after long-running breach of employee email accounts
Newman Regional Health (NRH) is notifying more than 52,000 patients after an investigation revealed unauthorized access to a limited number of their employee e-mail accounts between January 26, 2021 and November 23, 2021. NRH is not a large hospital. According to their site, the Kansas hospital is a not-for-profit 25-bed critical access hospital, owned by…
Hetzner lost customer data and gave 20€ as compensation
Bill Toulas reports: Hetzner Online GmbH, a German cloud services provider, told some customers this week that their data had been irreversibly lost and were provided a 20€ compensation in online credit. Hetzner, which operates several data centers in Germany and Finland, suffered a rare occurrence of multiple hardware failures that have wiped some customers’…
North Korean hackers behind $600 million crypto heist – FBI; spying on South Korean chemical sector firms – Symantec
Ameya Paleja reports: Cyber actors such as the Lazarus Group and APT38, from North Korea, have been confirmed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to be involved in the $600-million crypto-heist that took place last month, the investigation agency said in a press release. Earlier this year, we had reported that North Korean cybercriminals made…