Robbie Harb reports: Hundreds of thousands of sensitive dating app profiles – including images of “a graphic, sexual nature” – were exposed online for anyone stumbling across them to download. Word of the uncontrolled emission burst forth from vpnMentor this week, which claims it found a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket containing 845GB of private dating app records….
Category: Business Sector
Magecart attackers hit Claire’s, Intersport web shops
Zeljka Zorz reports: Magecart attackers have compromised web shops belonging to large retail chains Claire’s and Intersport and equipped them with payment card skimmers. The compromise of Claire’s online store and that of its sister brand Icing has been flagged by Sansec researchers. Read more on Help Net Security. Update of June 17: Intersport sent the following…
In: Software firm files complaint against six staffers for Rs 40L data theft
Ahmedabad Mirror reports that Suresh Prajapati, 48, filed a complaint of theft against six employees working at his firm for stealing software, data and source code and selling it to other companies. Read more on Ahmedabad Mirror. The paper reports that the complaint alleges that the firm, Dev ERP Solutions, suffered losses of Rs 40…
Live Event Manufacturer Reveals Employee Data Breach
Phil Muncaster reports: A major manufacturing company for live events has disclosed a data breach affecting the personal and financial information of its employees. Tait Towers Manufacturing produces rigging, lighting and other equipment for concerts, theatrical performances and the like. It claims to have worked on many of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time….
Lawsuit Filed Against Accounting Firm in Ransomware Attack That Impacted Patient Data
More coverage of a lawsuit against BST, a CPA firm that is a business associate of Community Care Physicians. BST had been attacked by Maze ransomware, and when they did not pay the demanded ransom, the ransomware operators started dumping some of the data to increase pressure on them. Now patients of Community Care Physicians…
Italian company exposed as a front for malware operations
Catalin Cimpanu reports: For the past four years, an Italian company has operated a seemingly legitimate website and business, offering to provide binary protection against reverse engineering for Windows applications, but has secretly advertised and provided its service to malware gangs. The company’s secret business came to light after security researchers from Check Point began…