Amy Stillman reports: Some of Petroleos Mexicanos’s communication systems are still affected two weeks after a cyberattack hit Mexico’s beleaguered state oil firm. For some employees, internet access is limited, some computer files aren’t accessible and they are having difficulty receiving external emails to corporate accounts, according to people in Pemex’s finance, legal and refining…
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Google Fires Four Employees, Citing Data-Security Violations
Bloomberg reports: Google told staff on Monday that it fired four employees for what the company called “clear and repeated violations” of its data-security policies. Alphabet Inc.’s Google sent an email describing the decision to employees titled “Securing our data,” according to a copy of the document obtained by Bloomberg News. The company confirmed the…
Allied Universal Breached by Maze Ransomware, Stolen Data Leaked
Lawrence Abrams reports: After a deadline was missed for receiving a ransom payment, the group behind Maze Ransomware has published almost 700 MB worth of data and files stolen from security staffing firm Allied Universal. We are told this is only 10% of the total files stolen and the rest will be released if a…
Church’s Chicken probes data security breach at company-owned sites
MobilePaymentsToday reports: Church’s Chicken said it is investigating a possible data breach involving credit and debit card information at some of its company owned locations in the U.S., where it operates quick service restaurants in 11 states. The company said an unauthorized third party may have accessed its payment processing systems at some of its…
T-Mobile discloses security breach impacting prepaid customers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US branch of telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a security breach today that impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service. The company said its cybersecurity team “discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access to some information related to your T-Mobile prepaid wireless account.” Exposed data included details such as…
French Hotel Giant Leaks 1TB+ of Client Data
Phil Muncaster reports: A leading European hotel booking platform has leaked over 1TB of data on customers, clients and partners thanks to an unsecured Elasticsearch database, exposing them to account takeover, identity theft and financial fraud. The database reportedly belongs to French B2B hotel booking firm Gekko Group, a subsidiary of Europe’s largest hotel group,…