Simon Sharwood reports: An Indian flight booking website majority-owned by US retail colossus Walmart has experienced a data breach, but is saying very little about what happened or the risks to customers. News of the breach emerged on Monday, when customers received a message depicted in the tweet below….. Read more at The Register. Once…
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Anonymous mental health app Feelyou accidentally exposed 70,000 personal emails
Mikael Thalen reports Owned by the Japan-based company bajji, Feelyou is self-described as the first journaling and social mood tracking app. It allows users to share their feelings with others either publicly or anonymously. It’s tagline is, “It’s O.K. not to be O.K.” …. Up until last week, however, anyone could obtain the personal email addresses of…
Timios settles data breach litigation
Real estate solutions company Timios agreed to settle claims it failed to protect consumer data in a July 2021 data breach. Top Class Actions reports that in October 2021, Timios began to inform customers their sensitive information may have been compromised when a third party gained access to the company’s network, encrypted certain Timios systems and…
Cn: Two hackers get arrested five days after their release for making $300,000 illegal profits
Global Times reports: Two hackers in Tongling, East China’s Anhui Province, were arrested by local police after they had been released from prison for only five days and made 2 million yuan($300,000) in illegal profits. The local police had lately discovered that the backend data of a company in its jurisdiction had been hacked, and…
South Korean call taxi system paralyzed by ransomware attack, company pays ransom to get decryptor
Ahn Ho-cheon reports (machine translation follows): A company operating a ‘call taxi system’ in most cities and counties in Gangwon-do was attacked by a hacking attack, and call taxi calls through smartphone apps were blocked. It was found that the call system was paralyzed in parts of Busan, Gyeonggi, Gyeongbuk, and Jeonnam in addition to Gangwon…
Recent decisions by the Data Protection Commissioner of Singapore
Recent decisions by the Data Protection Commissioner of Singapore include the following: Directions were issued to Crawfort Pte to conduct a security audit of its technical and administrative arrangements for its AWS S3 environment and rectify any security gaps identified in the audit report. This is pursuant to a data breach incident where Crawfort’s customer…