Sergiu Gatlan reports: Folksam, one of the largest insurance companies in Sweden, today disclosed a data breach affecting around 1 million Swedes after sharing customers’ personal info with multiple technology giants. The insurer discovered the data breach after an internal audit according to Jens Wikström, Head of Marketing and Sales at Folksam, and reported the incident to…
Category: Business Sector
Saarbrücken Airport reports cyberattack
The following is a Google translation: There was a cyber attack on Saarbrücken Airport and the state-owned structural holding company Saar GmbH on Tuesday morning. Flight operations are not affected. SHS and airport spokesman Ludwin Vogel confirmed to the SR that the company was being attacked via the Internet. He emphasized that flight operations were not affected. The…
Campari Group victim of a malware attack
A Google translation of a report on Trend-Online: Campari Group informs that, presumably on 1 November 2020, it was the subject of a malware attack (computer virus), which was promptly identified. The Group’s IT department, with the support of IT security experts, immediately took action to limit the spread of malware in data and systems. Read…
Customer payment details stolen in JM Bullion hack
Keumars Afifi-Sabet reports: Hackers scraped the personal information and payment details of customers who made purchases with the precious metals dealer JM Bullion in a cyber attack which lasted six months earlier this year. JM Bullion discovered in July that malicious code had been embedded into its online shopping platform, enabling hackers to capture the information that customers…
NetWalker hits CMC in Ravenna
Andrea Alberizia reports that CMC in Ravenna has been compromised by NetWalker ransomware. A team of 20 engineers from Itway has been working around the clock for four days to get the coop network fully restored. The company has no intention of paying the ransom demand. The amount of the demand was not reported, but…
KR: Court orders online mall to compensate 2,400 customers for data leak
Depending on how long you have been following this blog, some of you may not remember the Interpark data breach in South Korea in 2016. I had covered it several times, including when it was fined $3.8 million (the largest fine up until that date) for its failure to protect consumer data from from what…