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…
Category: Business Sector
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…
Eatigo reports data breach, personal data from customer accounts listed for sale online
CNA reports: Personal data from potentially 2.8 million eatigo accounts were illegally assessed in a data breach. In an email to customers on Saturday (Oct 31), the restaurant reservation platform said that along with other e-commerce sites, it was the subject of “a data security incident involving unauthorised access to our customer database”. Read more on CNA.
REvil ransomware threat actors reveal their gaming company victim
In a recent interview with Yelisey Boguslavskiy, “UNKN” of the threat actors known as REvil (Sodinokibi) indicated that they were planning a major attack on a gaming network. Today, the threat actors added GPI (Gaming Partners International) to their dedicated leak site. GPI describes itself as a leading provider of casino currency and table game…
Personal data of 1.1 million RedMart user accounts stolen in Lazada breach and put up for sale
Lester Wong reports: The personal information of 1.1 million RedMart user accounts was stolen from a customer database and put up for sale on an online forum. A spokesman from e-commerce giant Lazada, which owns e-grocer Redmart, confirmed the data breach yesterday and said that the personal information stolen included names, phone numbers, e-mail, mailing…