Damien Black reports: A popular data analytics tool that tracks YouTube and other major social media platforms has admitted to being hacked. Social Blade issued a statement saying it had been notified of a systems breach on December 14, while insisting no credit card data had been leaked. However, it said other personally identifying information,…
Category: Business Sector
Former Twitter employee sentenced to more than three years in prison for spying for Saudi Arabia
Kevin Collier reports: A former Twitter employee found guilty of spying on users on behalf of the Saudi royal family has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Ahmad Abouammo, a dual U.S.-Lebanese citizen who helped oversee media partnerships for Twitter in the Middle East and North Africa, was part of a scheme to…
TPG Telecom says up to 15,000 email accounts of business customers hacked
Reuters reports: Australia’s No. 2 telecom provider TPG Telecom Ltd (TPG.AX) said on Wednesday its cyber security adviser Mandiant notified the company of unauthorised access to an exchange service that hosts email accounts of up to 15,000 business customers. The hack was an attempt to access customers’ cryptocurrency and financial information, TPG said. Read more…
Uber suffers new data breach after attack on vendor, info leaked online
Lawrence Abrams reports: Early Saturday morning, a threat actor named ‘UberLeaks’ began leaking data they claimed was stolen from Uber and Uber Eats on a hacking forum known for publishing data breaches. The leaked data includes numerous archives claiming to be source code associated with mobile device management platforms (MDM) used by Uber and Uber Eats…
Au: 130,000 Telstra customers exposed in data leak
Ben Cubby reports: Personal information of more than 130,000 Telstra customers has been exposed in the latest large-scale privacy breach to strike big Australian companies. Telstra said a “misalignment of databases” rather than hacking was responsible for the breach, which saw customer details wrongly made available on the online White Pages and via directory assistance….
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
MX: Jalisco Congress Attacked by Play The Congress of Jalisco announced that it has been affected by a ransomware attack on December 6 by a group called “Play.” The attack encrypted 14 servers and some employees have received extortion demands seeking payment for a decryption key. At a press conference, the President of the Board…