Paul Kunert reports: The third-party mailbox used by Computacenter employees and contractors to deposit data for security clearance applications has been hacked and used in phishing scams. The company, one of Europe’s largest resellers, counts some of the biggest names in financial services among its corporate client base, and sells to a raft of local…
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Shubert Organization Suffers Data Breach
Marc Hershberg reports: Someone snuck into the Shubert Organization. According to a letter mailed to certain customers, Shubert executives came across some suspicious activity on an employee’s email account last February, and teamed up with some forensic experts to investigate what was happening. The probe found that someone had gained access to several employee’s email…
Redtail CRM Data Breach May Have Exposed FA Client Info
Financial Advisor IQ reports: Some financial advisors using Redtail Technology’s client relationship management software may have had their clients’ personal data exposed on the internet, according to news reports. Redtail told affected advisors in an email that it learned on March 4 about a data breach that led to its logging systems capturing some investor…
Two more Microsoft zero-days uploaded on GitHub
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A security researcher going online by the pseudonym of SandboxEscaper has published today demo exploit code for two more Microsoft zero-days after releasing a similar fully-working exploit the day before. These two mark the sixth and seventh zero-days impacting Microsoft products this security researcher has published in the past ten months, with…
Equifax just became the first company to have its outlook downgraded for a cyber attack
Kate Fazzini reports: Moody’s has just slashed its rating outlook on Equifax, the first time cybersecurity issues have been cited as the reason for a downgrade. Moody’s lowered Equifax’s outlook from stable to negative on Wednesday, as the credit monitoring company continues to suffer from the massive 2017 breach of consumer data. “We are treating…
50,000 credit card data stolen, victims include police, army officers
Times Now reports: The special task force of the Uttar Pradesh police has arrested four persons for allegedly stealing the credit card data of 50,000 users. The victims include both police and army officers some of whom were duped. The accused have been identified as Sanjit alias Sandeep, Baldev, Tapeshwar and and Gajendra, all of…