Jonathan Greig reports: One of the largest furniture companies in the U.S. was forced to shut down its manufacturing facilities following a ransomware attack that began last week. Bassett Furniture Industries said it shut down some of its information technology systems after it discovered unauthorized access on July 10. The hacker “disrupted the Company’s business…
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Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack
Matthew Connaster reports: CDK Global reportedly paid a $25 million ransom in Bitcoin after its servers were knocked offline by crippling ransomware. Last week, CDK restored services to car dealerships across the US after a two-week outage caused by a “cyber incident” that looked a lot like a ransomware infection. The shutdown of CDK’s software platform caused…
Hackers claim Disney data theft in protest against AI-generated artwork
Alex Hern reports: Hacktivists claim to have stolen more than a terabyte of data from Disney’s internal chat platform and are leaking the information online in a protest against what they say is the company’s anti-artist stance. The group, which calls itself NullBulge, has been active since at least May. It claims to be motivated…
AT&T Says New Hack Includes Records of Customer Calls, Texts
Christopher Palmieri reports: AT&T Inc. suffered a massive hack of customer data — separate from one reported earlier this year — that included records of calls and texts for nearly all of its mobile-phone users for a six-month period in 2022, one of the biggest breaches of private communications data in recent memory. The company said…
Data breach exposes millions of mSpy spyware customers
Zack Whittaker reports: A data breach at the phone surveillance operation mSpy has exposed millions of its customers who bought access to the phone spyware app over the past decade, as well as the Ukrainian company behind it. Unknown attackers stole millions of customer support tickets, including personal information, emails to support, and attachments, including…
Za: South African mining giant hacked
Myles Illidge reports: Local mining giant Sibanye-Stillwater, one of the world’s biggest producers of platinum and gold, has revealed that its global IT systems have suffered a cyberattack. In a notice informing stakeholders, the company said it has implemented security measures to isolate its IT systems and protect critical data. Read more at MyBroadband.