Corbin Davenport reports on an unconfirmed (as yet?) breach: Visible is a “digital” carrier owned by Verizon, with a greater emphasis on fair pricing and shared plans. The company has gained popularity for its relatively low pricing for unlimited data plans, and earlier this year, Visible introduced 5G service and eSIM support. However, Visible subscribers…
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Woman Allegedly Hacked Flight School, Cleared Planes With Maintenance Issues to Fly
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A woman allegedly hacked into the systems of a flight training school in Florida to delete and tamper with information related to the school’s airplanes. In some cases, planes that previously had maintenance issues had been “cleared” to fly, according to a police report. The hack, according to the school’s CEO, could…
Cox Media Group confirms ransomware attack that took down broadcasts
Sergiu Gatlan reports: American media conglomerate Cox Media Group (CMG) confirmed that it was hit by a ransomware attack that took down live TV and radio broadcast streams in June 2021. The company acknowledged the attack in data breach notification letters sent today via U.S. Mail to over 800 impacted individuals believed to have had their personal…
Next Level Apparel Notice of Security Incident
Today’s reminder that you’ll find medical/health info everywhere… GARDENA, Calif., Oct. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Next Level Apparel (“NLA”) announced today a phishing email incident that involved a small number of email accounts in its computer environment. The phishing email incident resulted in unauthorized access to information contained in some email accounts, including names accompanied by Social…
Hackers of SolarWinds stole data on U.S. sanctions policy, intelligence probe
Joseph Menn and Christopher Bing report: The suspected Russian hackers who used SolarWinds and Microsoft software to burrow into U.S. federal agencies emerged with information about counter-intelligence investigations, policy on sanctioning Russian individuals and the country’s response to COVID-19, people involved in the investigation told Reuters. The hacks were widely publicized after their discovery late…
Telegraph newspaper bares 10TB of subscriber data and server logs to world+dog
Gareth Corfield reports: The Telegraph newspaper managed to leak 10TB of subscriber data and server logs after leaving an Elasticsearch cluster unsecured for most of September, according to the researcher who found it online. The blunder was uncovered by well-known security researcher Bob Diachenko, who said that the cluster had been freely accessible “without a…