Updated August 24: The #DarkSide’s victim is Brookfield Residential. Brookfield Residential describes themselves as a North American land developer and new home builder, and the “flagship North American residential property company of Brookfield Asset Management.” On their leak site, the threat actors had linked to Brookfield.com, which is Brookfield Asset Management, but the documents dumped…
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Free photos, graphics site Freepik discloses data breach impacting 8.3m users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Freepik, a website dedicated to providing access to high-quality free photos and design graphics, has disclosed today a major security breach. The company made it official after users started grumbling on social media this week about receiving shady-looking breach notification emails in their inboxes. Read more on ZDNet.
Experian only informed Information Regulator months after hack
Admire Moyo reports: The Information Regulator is concerned about the hacking of credit bureau Experian, which occurred less than two months after the commencement of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act. This week, Experian, a consumer, business and credit information services agency, confirmed it experienced a data breach which exposed the personal information of as many…
Turkey: KVKK announces Kariyer.net data breach
OneTrust DataGuidance reports: The Turkish data protection authority (‘KVKK’) announced, on 18 August 2020, a data breach suffered by Kariyer.net Elektronik Yayıncılık ve İletişim Hiz. Inc. In particular, the KVKK highlighted that the breach was detected by a consultant serving as a supplier to Kariyer.net on 12 August 2020 and was communicated to an employee of Kariyer.net informing them that a file…
Japan: Mitsukoshi and MI Card announce data breach affecting approximately 19,000 customers
OneTrust Data Guidance reports: Isetan Mitsukoshi Co., Ltd and MI Card Co., Ltd announced, on 5 August 2020, that they had suffered a data breach affecting approximately 19,000 customers as a result of unauthorised access. In particular, MI Card noted that the data breach occurred on the Isetan Mitsukoshi Online Store as well as MI Card’s homepage. In…
Uber Exec Allegedly Concealed 2016 Hack With $100K BTC ‘Bug Bounty’ Pay-Off
Turner Wright reports: Joseph Sullivan, a former Chief Security Officer at Uber, allegedly tried to cover up a 2016 hack of sensitive data by funneling a hush money payment of $100,000 in Bitcoin through a bug bounty program. The hackers had obtained the drivers’ license numbers of roughly 600,000 Uber drivers as well as private…