France Bleu reports (translation): The agri-food group Lactalis, based in Laval (Mayenne) is now part of the long list of companies victims of cyberattacks. The group announced in a short press release on Friday that a ” malicious third party [sought to break into ” their servers. ” We immediately took measures to contain this attack and we notified…
Category: Business Sector
One of the biggest Android VPNs hacked? Data of 21 million users from 3 Android VPNs put for sale online
A user on a popular hacker forum is selling three databases that purportedly contain user credentials and device data stolen from three different Android VPN services – SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, and ChatVPN – with 21 million user records being sold in total. Read more on CyberNews.com. The seller, who has been a member of the forum…
The Jones Day dump contains prescription drug records. Who’s notifying those patients of the breach?
By now, many are aware that Jones Day, a giant law firm, had some of its files stolen due to vulnerabilities in the standalone file transfer administration system by Accellion. Jones Day is one of dozens of Accellion clients that have found themselves investigating and dealing with breaches affecting their businesses and clients. The Jones…
T-Mobile discloses data breach after SIM swapping attacks
Sergiu Gatlan reports: American telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after an unknown number of customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. […] In a data breach notice sent to impacted customers on February 9, 2021, and filed with US attorney generals’ offices, T-Mobile revealed that an unknown attacker gained access to customers’ account…
DRM Screws People Yet Again: Book DRM Data Breach Exposes Reporters’ Emails And Passwords
Mike Masnick writes: I have a few different services that report to me if my email is found in various data breaches, and recently I was notified that multiple email addresses of mine showed up in a leak of the service NetGalley. NetGalley, if you don’t know, is a DRM service for books, that is…
‘Millions of people’s data is at risk’ — Amazon insiders sound alarm over security
Vincent Manancourt reports: Your order history. Your credit card information. Even your intimate health data. Amazon is amassing an empire of data as the online retailer ventures into ever more areas of our lives. But the company’s efforts to protect the information it collects are inadequate, according to insiders who warn the company’s security shortfalls…