Lucy Ingham reports: A data breach at UK-based Crew and Concierge Limited has exposed the personal data of 17,379 people of 50 different nationalities working in the yachting industry. Crew and Concierge is an international recruitment agency specialising in securing staff for ultra-high-net-worth clients’ yachts operating around the world. Read more on Verdict.
Category: Business Sector
Pabbly Email Marketing Exposes 51.2 Million Records Online
Jeremiah Fowler reports: Email marketing is big business and many companies rely on emails to keep in contact with their customers or potential customers. In the modern world of over priced pay per click ads targeted email marketing lists are the holy grail of an organization’s marketing strategy. This customer data is equally as valuable…
New ransomware doesn’t just encrypt data. It also meddles with critical infrastructure
Dan Goodin reports on yet another sinister development involving ransomware attacks and strains: A ransomware strain discovered last month and dubbed Ekans contains the usual routines for disabling data backups and mass-encrypting files on infected systems. But researchers at security firm Dragos found something else that has the potential to be more disruptive: code that…
AU: Yarra Trams data breach: Commuters’ email addresses exposed
Timna Jacks reports: The personal email addresses of nearly 100 people have been exposed by Yarra Trams in yet another data breach involving Victorian commuters. In an email from a Yarra Trams officer to 91 commuters rejecting their compensation requests on Friday, the private email addresses of each of the commuters was exposed. Read more…
Ashley Madison cyber-breach: 5 years later, users are being targeted with ‘sextortion’ scams
Kate Fazzini reports: Scammers have found a new way to wring money out of unsuspecting victims of the 2015 breach of the Ashley Madison affair-dating website, by using their stolen credentials in an amped-up version of the common “sextortion” scam. Researchers at email security company Vade Secure found the new scam earlier this year, when…
Japanese company NEC confirms 2016 security breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Japanese electronics and IT company NEC Corp disclosed a security breach today that took place more than three years ago, in December 2016. The company’s admission comes after reports in Japanese media [1, 2, 3] that the company might have suffered a security breach but decided to keep it quiet. Read more on ZDNet.