The following is a press release issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that relates to a data security incident — a misconfiguration — discovered by MacKeeper researchers in 2016 that was previously noted on this site, including a subsequent settlement between DealerBuilt and the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. From the wording of the…
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Radiohead’s unreleased OK Computer audio was stolen. Now the band is letting everyone hear it.
Allegra Frank reports: When music pirates go low, Radiohead goes high. After a hacker stole 18 hours’ worth of unreleased music that the band recorded during the late ’90s, one of its peak creative periods, Radiohead didn’t fight to keep the tracks out of the public ear. Instead, the band made the stolen tunes available…
Evite Confirms Data Breach After Hacker Sells User Data On Dark Web.
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Evite, a social planning and e-invitations service, and one of the biggest sites on the Internet, has officially admitted to a security breach that ZDNet first reported back in April. At the time, a hacker named Gnosticplayers put up for sale the customer data of six companies, including Evite. The hacker claimed…
Two hacking groups responsible for huge spike in hacked Magento 2.x stores
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two hacker groups are responsible for a huge spike in the number of hacked Magento 2.x shopping sites, according to Willem de Groot, founder of Sanguine Security. This is now the third month in a row when the number of hacked Magento 2.x sites has doubled, after it previously doubled from March…
CNIL Fines French Real Estate Service Provider for Data Security and Retention Failures
From Hunton Andrews Kurth: On June 6, 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it levied a fine of €400,000 on SERGIC, a French real estate service provider, for failure to (1) implement appropriate security measures and (2) define data retention periods for the personal data of unsuccessful rental candidates. Read more…
FIN8 hackers return after two years with attacks against hospitality sector
Catalin Cimpanu reports that researchers claim to have spotted evidence of ongoing and increasing FIN8 activity: But in a report published today, cyber-security firm Morphisec said it detected and stopped new FIN8 attacks aimed at companies in the hospitality industry. These new attacks leveraged the same malware the group had used in the past but…