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,…
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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…
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…
CitySprint confirms security breach involing iFleet System, warns delivery drivers their personal data may be in the hands of hackers
Graham Cluley writes: Same-day delivery firm CitySprint has warned couriers it has suffered a data breach that may have allowed hackers to access their sensitive personal data. An email sent on April 7th to thousands of drivers confirming that a security breach had occurred. Read more at GrahamCluley.com. There is no indication in his report…
T-Mobile Tried To Pay Hackers To Buy Leaked Customer Data Back
Abhishek Mishra reports on one of the revelations in court filings related to the arrest of the owner of RaidForums and the takedown of the forum: T-Mobile, one of the largest phone carriers in the U.S., tried to pay the hackers to get back its customer data leaked in a previous breach. The move backfired…