Salvador Rodriguez reports: Twitter on Wednesday disclosed a new security vulnerability that may have exposed the direct messages of users who access the service using Android devices. Specifically, the vulnerability could have exposed the private data of Twitter users running devices with Android OS versions 8 and 9, the company said. Read more on CNBC.
Category: Business Sector
Delivery startup, iVoy, experiences data breach, over 127,000 accounts exposed
Mariana Lopez reports: What a week it must have been over at Mexican logistics startup, iVoy. When your users’ data has been potentially compromised, you have a lot to do. Last Tuesday (28), news broke that it was among a series of companies to experience a data breach. In the process, a reported 127,432 account users’ emails and iVoy passwords were…
Court Approves Class Action Settlement in RE: YAHOO! Inc.
Zarish Baig of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Yahoo!’s data breach class action is finally being put to rest. Last month, the Northern District of California approved the proposed $117.5M settlement to resolve the claims of approximately 194 million class members in In re Yahoo! Inc. Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig., No. 16-MD-02752-LHK, 2020 U.S. Dist….
Canon hit by Maze Ransomware attack, 10TB data allegedly stolen
Lawrence Abrams reports: Canon has suffered a ransomware attack that impacts numerous services, including Canon’s email, Microsoft Teams, USA website, and other internal applications. BleepingComputer has been tracking a suspicious outage on Canon’s image.canon cloud photo and video storage service resulting in the loss of data for users of their free 10GB storage feature. Read…
Robocall Legal Advocate Leaks Customer Data
Brian Krebs reports: A California company that helps telemarketing firms avoid getting sued for violating a federal law that seeks to curb robocalls has leaked the phone numbers, email addresses and passwords of all its customers, as well as the mobile phone numbers and other data on people who have hired lawyers to go after…
Ca: Ransomware attack on MSP failed, but attackers exfiltrated some data — Pivot Technology Solutions
Canadian managed service provider Pivot Technology Solutions was the victim of a ransomware attack in June. The good news is that the ransomware did not encrypt their systems. The bad news is that the attack resulted in some data of U.S. employees and consultants being exfiltrated. So far, I haven’t found any statement as to…