From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Ticketmaster UK Limited £1.25million for failing to keep its customers’ personal data secure. The ICO found that the company failed to put appropriate security measures in place to prevent a cyber-attack on a chat-bot installed on its online payment page. Ticketmaster’s failure to protect…
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Human error leads to 27.7M people in Texas impacted in Vertafore ‘data event’
Nick Greenhalgh reports: A few months after its $5.3 billion acquisition by Roper Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ROP), Denver insurance tech giant Vertafore is in the midst of what the company is calling a “data event.” The company released a statement on Nov. 10 detailing human error that caused company data files to be accessed without authorization. The…
Ransomware Group Turns to Facebook Ads
Brian Krebs reports: It’s bad enough that many ransomware gangs now have blogs where they publish data stolen from companies that refuse to make an extortion payment. Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. The Ragnar Locker threat actors…
Melbourne firm denies data stolen during ransomware attack
Sam Varghese reports: A Melbourne firm which suffered a hit from cyber criminals using the Windows REvil ransomware has denied that any data was exfiltrated from its site, as was reported in these columns. A spokesperson from Nexia Australia and New Zealand, a network of solutions-focused accountancy and consultancy firms, said the attack had taken…
Report: Hotel Reservation Platform Leaves Millions of People Exposed in Massive Data Breach
Mark Holden of Website Planet reports on a big Oops! involving Prestige Software in Spain and a misconfigured AWS bucket: Courtesy of our security team at Website Planet, we can reveal that a hotel reservation platform has been exposing highly sensitive data from millions of hotel guests worldwide, dating as far back as 2013 and including…
Compal, the second-largest laptop manufacturer in the world, hit by ransomware
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Compal, a Taiwanese electronics company that builds laptops for some of the world’s largest computer brands, suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend. Responsible for the breach is believed to be the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang, according to a screenshot of the ransom note shared by Compal employees with Yahoo Taiwan reporters. Read…