One of the many hacks this site reported on in 2021 was the attack on Vhive in Singapore by threat actors calling themselves ALTDOS. The attack resulted in what the threat actors claimed was hundreds of thousands of the furniture retailers’ customers having their personal information leaked when the firm refused to pay the attackers’…
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Confidential Record Leak Leaves CalBar, Lawyers, Clients Exposed
David McAfee reports: California’s state bar association, which is responsible for licensing and regulating more than 250,000 lawyers in the most populous US state, is itself under scrutiny for a data leak that allowed confidential client complaint and attorney disciplinary record data to be captured by a free court records website. As many as 322,500…
Malaysian POS provider StoreHub almost exposed one million customers in data leak
Aaron Raj reports: Another day, another data leak report in Malaysia. Data leaks and breaches are becoming so rampant in Malaysia that there is news about them almost every week in the local media. Now, almost a million customers have had their data leaked in what may be an industry-impacting incident. According to a report by…
Montrose Environmental Group Says Ransomware Attack Took Place Over Weekend
Denny Jacob reports: Montrose Environmental Group Inc. said Tuesday that it determined it was the target of a ransomware attack over the weekend. The environmental services company said it believes the attack primarily affected computers and servers within its Enthalpy Analytical laboratory network based on currently available information. Montrose said fact patterns of the attack…
Analysis of the Fourth Circuit’s Opinion in In re Marriott International, Inc.
Gargi Chaudhuri and James Masella, III of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP write: On April 21, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the dismissal by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland of allegations that Marriott International had violated federal securities laws by omitting from…
Shoprite Group issues warning on ‘suspected data compromise’ (UPDATED)
TimesLive reports: The Shoprite Group said on Friday evening it had become aware of a suspected data compromise, including names and ID numbers, which may affect some customers who engaged in money transfers to and within Eswatini and within Namibia and Zambia. “Affected customers will receive an SMS to the cell number supplied at the…