Sabina Weston reports: Hackers behind last month’s cyber attack on Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, have published a portion of the compromised data online. That’s according to a statement published by the company, in which it advised customers and business partners to “stay vigilant” as there’s a possibility that their personal data may be misused. Read more at ITPro.
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LINE Pay leaks data from approximately 133,000 users to GitHub of all places
Sunaina reports: LINE Pay, a smartphone payment provider, announced yesterday that between September and November of this year, approximately 133,000 users’ payment details were inadvertently published on GitHub. A research group employee accidentally uploaded files detailing participants in a LINE Pay promotional programme staged between late December 2020 and April 2021 to the collaborative coding…
T-Mobile litigation over major data breach to proceed in Missouri
Sara Merken reports the latest update in litigation stemming from the T-Mobile breach disclosed in August that impacted 53 million consumers: The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has transferred a batch of lawsuits against T-Mobile US Inc over its recently disclosed data breach to a Kansas City, Missouri federal court. The panel in a Friday order centralized…
Utility biz Delta-Montrose Electric Association loses billing capability and two decades of records after cyber attack
Gareth Corfield reports: A US utility company based in Colorado was hit by a ransomware attack in November that wiped out two decades’ worth of records and knocked out billing systems that won’t be restored until next week at the earliest. The attack was detailed by the Deltca-Montrose Electric Association (DMEA) in a post on…
Bitmart hacked; Estimated loss of $200M
Lipka Deka reports: Crypto exchange firm Bitmart suffered a large-scale hack incurring a total loss of approximately $200 million. The news was first brought to the attention by security analytics entity Pecksheild Inc who raised an alarm of the reported breach on Saturday night. Pechsheild sent out the tweet detailing the suspicious amount of outflows of a…
Sensitive information of 30k Florida healthcare workers exposed in unprotected database
Jonathan Greig reports: More than 30,000 US healthcare workers’ personal information was recently exposed due to a non-password protected database, according to security researcher Jeremiah Fowler and a team of ethical hackers with Website Planet. Fowler discovered a database run by Gale Healthcare Solutions with 170,239 exposed records that included names, emails, home addresses, photos and in some…