Simon Little and John Hua report: Bars, restaurants and private liquor stores around B.C. are dealing with a frustrating backlog in supplies, after hackers targeted one of the biggest links in B.C.’s booze supply chain. Ransom-seeking cybercriminals successfully breached systems at Container World, a warehousing and logistics company that supplies much of province’s specialty liquor…
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Ad Network Sizmek Probes Account Breach
Brian Krebs reports: Online advertising firm Sizmek Inc. [NASDAQ: SZMK] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. In a recent posting to a Russian-language cybercrime forum, an individual who’s been known…
NZ retailer Kathmandu Holdings flags suspected data breach at websites
Reuters reports: March 13 (Reuters) – New Zealand-based outdoor clothing and equipment retailer Kathmandu Holdings Ltd said on Wednesday it was “urgently investigating” a suspected customer data breach at its online trading websites.v The company said an unidentified third party gained unauthorised access to its website platform between Jan. 8 and Feb. 12 and might…
Airline e-ticket systems’ vulnerabilities could compromise PII to hackers
Anthony Kimery reports: Eight airline’s e-ticketing systems can expose passengers’ Personally Identifiable Information (PII) throuvgh a vulnerability using website links that are “easily intercepted by hackers,” according to Wandera, an enterprise mobile security and data management solutions company, in a recent report. “All of the major airlines that we identified are putting passenger data at…
Dozens of companies leaked sensitive data thanks to misconfigured Box accounts
Zack Whittaker reports: Security researchers have found dozens of companies inadvertently leaking sensitive corporate and customer data because staff are sharing public links to files in their Box enterprise storage accounts that can easily be discovered. The discoveries were made by Adversis, a cybersecurity firm, which found major tech companies and corporate giants had left…
Facebook Suit Reveals Ukrainian Hackers Used Quizzes to Take Data from 60,000 Users
Kevin Poulsen reports: Two Ukrainian men used online quizzes to lure more than 60,000 Facebook users into installing malicious browser extensions that exfiltrated their profile data and friends lists to offshore servers, according a federal lawsuit the company filed late Friday. The men, Andrey Gorbachov and Gleb Sluchevsky, allegedly used the browser extensions to overlay…