Ionut Ilascu reports: The Lapsus$ data extortion group leaked today a huge collection of confidential data they claim to be from Samsung Electronics, the South Korean giant consumer electronics company. The leak comes less than a week after Lapsus$ released a 20GB document archive from 1TB of data stolen from Nvidia GPU designer. In a note posted…
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CONSUMER ALERT: Consumers Impacted by T-Mobile Data Breach At Risk of Potential Identity Theft
The following alert was published by New York State Attorney General, but it applies to consumers in all states, so if you were a former, then-current, or prospective T-Mobile customer in 2021, you should read this: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today provided guidance to consumers who may have been impacted…
The Tel Aviv company paid millions to stop cyber criminals
Ofir Dor reports: In early 2021, a team from Sygnia was called in to deal with an intrusion into the systems of a US technology company that develops and manufactures Wi-Fi equipment, and that has a $15 billion market cap. The company received an anonymous email demanding a ransom payment of 50 Bitcoins (about $1.9…
Toyota to halt operations at all Japan plants due to cyberattack
Reuters reports: Toyota said it will suspend all domestic factory operations on Tuesday losing around 13,000 cars after one a company supplying plastic parts and electronic component was hit by a suspected cyberattack. No information was immediately available about who was behind the attack or the motive. The attack comes just after Japan joined Western…
Bridgestone investigating possible information security breach
Hollie West reports: Some employees at Bridgestone’s La Vergne plant reported being sent home Sunday morning due to a possible cyber attack. Bridgestone Americas confirmed that it learned of a potential security incident and has launched an investigation. The company says it has disconnected some manufacturing and retreading facilities in North America and Latin America…
260,000 confidential attorney discipline records published after data breach, State Bar of California says
Scott Schwebke reports: A website that aggregates court cases nationwide has published 260,000 confidential attorney discipline records, the State Bar of California said Saturday, Feb. 26. The data breach by shadowy judyrecords.com was first discovered Friday by the State Bar. “We apologize to anyone who is affected by the website’s unlawful display of nonpublic data,”…