Bill Toulas reports: Gen Digital, formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock, is sending data breach notifications to customers, informing them that hackers have successfully breached Norton Password Manager accounts in credential-stuffing attacks. According to a letter sample shared with the Office of the Vermont Attorney General, the attacks did not result from a breach on the…
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SEC sues Covington law firm for names of 300 clients caught up in hack
Andrew Goudsward reports: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued law firm Covington & Burling for details about nearly 300 of the firm’s clientsd whose information was accessed or stolen by hackers in a previously undisclosed cyberattack, court documents show. Hackers associated with the Hafnium cyber-espionage group, which has alleged ties to the Chinese…
Zurich Japan hit by data breach with 750,000 users’ info stolen; Aflac Insurance also hit
Switzerland Times reports that Zurich Japan auto insurance was the victim of a cyberattack. Media reports on Monday reported the outflow of data from 2.6 million customers from the East Asian country. In fact, data from 757,463 former customers of a local car insurance product are affected, as the insurance group specified to AWP on…
Ransomware attack exposes California transit giant’s sensitive data
Matt Kapko reports: A ransomware attack against San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit exposed highly sensitive and personal data after a threat group leaked the records Friday. The nation’s fifth-largest transit system by ridership, and largest in California, remains operational. Vice Society, a prolific ransomware group, claimed responsibility for the attack on Friday when it…
Guardian confirms it was hit by ransomware attack
Dan Milmo reports: The Guardian has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack in December and that the personal data of UK staff members has been accessed in the incident. The Guardian Media Group’s chief executive, Anna Bateson, and the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, confirmed the news in an update emailed to staff on…
Update about an alleged incident regarding Twitter user data being sold online
From Twitter, today: …. In response to recent media reports of Twitter users’ data being sold online, we conducted a thorough investigation and there is no evidence that data recently being sold was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems. We also want to share an update about an incident that took place earlier this year,…