James de Villiers reports: Nando’s South Africa has denied that it shut down its Firestarters survey platform after a customer raised concerns that his personal contact details were on display for others to see. In a screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation posted on Monday evening, Twitter user Jarn Athern (@JonWithTheFace) detailed how he was contacted…
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Equifax Reaches $1.4 Billion Data Breach Settlement in Consumer Class Action; Also Agrees to Pay $575 Million as Part of Settlement with FTC, CFPB, and States Related to 2017 Data Breach
R. Robin McDonald reports: Equifax has agreed to pay at least $1.4 billion to settle multidistrict litigation brought on behalf of 147 million consumers, and pay millions more to resolve civil complaints brought by the federal government and multiple state attorneys general over its massive 2017 data breach. Monday’s notice of the proposed settlement, detailed in…
Wizz Air sends out password reset emails to millions of customers following ‘technical irregularity’
Mark Wyciślik-Wilson reports: Hungarian airline Wizz Air has emailed millions of customers informing them that their passwords have been reset. While the company is at pains to stress that it has not been the victim of hacking, nor is any personal information at risk, the email took many customers by surprise and raised concerns about…
Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project and more
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have breached SyTech, a contractor for FSB, Russia’s national intelligence service, from where they stole information about internal projects the company was working on behalf of the agency — including one for deanonymizing Tor traffic. The breach took place last weekend, on July 13, when a group of hackers going by…
Equifax to Pay Around $700 Million to Resolve Data-Breach Probes
AnnaMaria Andriotis reports: Equifax is nearing a deal to settle a slew of state and federal investigations into a 2017 data breach that exposed nearly 150 million Americans’ Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information. Under the agreement, the credit-reporting firm would pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission, the…
Hackers Publish List of Phished Discord Credentials
Joseph Cox reports: Earlier this week a group of hackers published a list of email addresses and passwords they say they phished from users of gaming chat platform Discord. The list is small, totalling in at only around 2,500 logins, but the news still acts as a reminder that Discord users need to remain vigilant…