The Bangkok Post reports: Online retail operator, Lazada, insisted on Friday it was not responsible for leaking any online shoppers’ data following a report claiming that about 13 million records from Lazada Thailand were being offered for sale on an underground trading forum. The company said it had conducted an initial investigation and found the…
Category: Business Sector
FTC asks court to force Bannon to testify on Cambridge Analytica scandal
Leah Nylen reports: The Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal court to force former Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon to testify under oath as part of the agency’s investigation into Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach. FTC prosecutors said they want to interview Bannon as part of a probe into whether he should be found personally…
Good Heavens! 10M Impacted in Pray.com Data Exposure
Tara Seals reports: The Christian faith app Pray.com has leaked private data for up to 10 million people, according to researchers. The app offers “daily prayer and Bible stories to inspire, educate and help you sleep” on a subscription basis. Subscriptions run anywhere from $50 to $120. It offers a host of audio content, including…
Mitsubishi Electric again falls victim to cyberattack
Hisashi Naito and Tatsuya Sudo report: Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has again been hit by a massive cyberattack that may have resulted in the leaking of information related to its business partners. Company officials on Nov. 20 said they were checking the 8,653 accounts of those it has business transactions with to determine if information related…
Thousands of New Zealanders’ email addresses, passwords stolen in data breach
1News reports: A person is claiming to be in possession of 2.6 million email addresses and encrypted passwords from Nitro PDF, of which 4000 are .nz email addresses, cyber security organisation CERT NZ said in an alert this afternoon. “CERT NZ understands there has been further data released in this breach, the details are not yet…
GO SMS Pro — one of the most popular Android messaging apps — just exposed millions of private photos and files
James Gelinas reports: Data leaks are bad enough, but it officially becomes a security nightmare when one affects hundreds of millions of users. Earlier this year, an unsecured server belonging to Microsoft exposed the data of more than 250 million users. This included email addresses that hackers and scammers could use for criminal activities. Tap or…