WANE reports: The state of Indiana has sued credit bureau Equifax for a 2017 data breach that left 147.9 million Americas, including 3.9 million Hoosiers, compromised. […]The state argued in its lawsuit that Equifax used cost-cutting measures like outsourcing mission-critical systems. The company failed to improve security and instead chose to increase revenue, the lawsuit…
Category: Business Sector
Airbnb users complain of accounts being ‘hacked’ saying they’ve been charged thousands and had bookings cancelled
Helen Knapman reports: AIRBNB users are complaining that their accounts have been “hacked” with some finding holidays unknowingly booked in their name costing thousands of pounds. Others say genuine reservations made on the booking site have been cancelled leaving them with nowhere to stay. Read more on The Sun. AirBNB had not responded to the…
Austrian construction group Porr hit by cyber attack
Kirsti Knolle reports: Austrian construction company Porr detected a cyber attack on its communication infrastructure on Thursday and its telephone lines and emails were disrupted, the company said. The disruption was caused by a virus, which has been identified, a company spokeswoman said. Read more on Reuters.
NY: North Country newspaper group faces Ryuk attack, but is it second attack or just more of the first?
Alec Johnson reports: The cyber attack that began at the Watertown Daily Times on Saturday reared its head again Thursday, but staff rallied to work without hard-wired internet to get the papers out. The cyber attack crippled the data infrastructure of Johnson Newspaper Corp., which publishes newspapers in Ogdensburg, Massena, Carthage, Malone, Oswego, Hudson, Catskill…
Hackers steal card data from 201 online campus stores from Canada and the US
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of hackers has planted malicious JavaScript code that steals payment card details inside the e-commerce system used by colleges and universities in Canada and the US. The malicious code was found on 201 online stores that were catering to 176 colleges and universities in the US and 21 in Canada,…
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April 10, 2022: A post that originally appeared at this URL has now been removed. The post, an excerpt from a mainstream news report, had described a felony charge against a named individual. The individual was acquitted on the felony charge that had made this story newsworthy. Given the other details in the news report,…