TEISS reports: Personal information, including driving licence numbers and phones numbers, of 21,000 British motorists have reportedly been stolen by cyber criminals and put up for sale on dark web marketplaces. The massive breach of personal records of British motorists was revealed by Sun Online in a report in which the paper said hackers obtained the vast…
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Manchester United getting assistance from UK’s cyber security agency after attack
PA reports: The Premier League club confirmed the hacking on 20th November and said it was not ‘aware of any breach of personal data associated with our fans and customers’. As of 26th November, club staff still did not have access to email, and some other functions were also unavailable. Read more on Sports Pro.
Networking equipment vendor Belden discloses data breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: American networking equipment vendor Belden said it was hacked in a press release published earlier this week. Belden says the security breach took place after hackers gained access to a limited number of its file servers. Read more on ZDNet.
Canon publicly confirms August ransomware attack, data theft
Ionut Ilascu reports: Canon has finally confirmed publicly that the cyberattack suffered in early August was caused by ransomware and that the hackers stole data from company servers. BleepingComputer was the first to report the attack after tracking a suspicious outage on the cloud photo and video storage service (image.canon) that caused users to lose files. Read…
Sophos notifies customers of data exposure after database misconfiguration
Catalin Cimpanu reports: UK-based cyber-security vendor Sophos is currently notifying customers via email about a security breach the company suffered earlier this week. “On November 24, 2020, Sophos was advised of an access permission issue in a tool used to store information on customers who have contacted Sophos Support,” the company said in an email…
Is Rand McNally just routinely “upgrading systems” or are they dealing with an attack?
A notice on their web site says that Rand McNally is upgrading their systems: Oh really? Why didn’t their site just admit what they wrote in email: “Dear Valued Customer, Rand McNally recently discovered a disruption to certain portions of our computer network. We commenced an immediate investigation that included taking certain systems offline and…