Angus Grigg reports: Chinese phone company Huawei has been linked to a major data breach in Africa casting doubt on the company’s claim there is no evidence to back up national security concerns which could see it banned from the rollout of 5G networks in Australia. The revelations centre on an investigation by French newspaper…
Category: Business Sector
Robocall Firm Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of US Voters’ Records
Catalin Cimpanu reports: RoboCent, a Virginia Beach-based political robocall firm, has exposed the personal details of hundreds of thousands of US voters, according to the findings of a security researcher who stumbled upon the company’s database online. The researcher, Bob Diachenko of Kromtech Security, says he discovered the data using a recently launched online service…
Telefonica breach exposes personal data of ‘millions’ of customers
Carly Page reports: Spanish operator Telefonica has suffered a security breach that exposed the personal data of millions of customers. The breach allowed anyone to access the billing data of other customers, according to a report at El Espanol, which noted that the incident is similar to a serious failure that hit Spain’s system in July…
Thousands of Mega logins dumped online, exposing user files
Zack Whittaker reports: Thousands of credentials for accounts associated with New Zealand-based file storage service Mega have been published online, ZDNet has learned. The text file contains over 15,500 usernames, passwords, and files names, indicating that each account had been improperly accessed and file names scraped. Patrick Wardle, chief research officer and co-founder at Digita…
Hackers are selling access to law firm secrets on dark web sites
Jennifer Schlesinger and Andrea Day report: It would be hard to walk into to a major business and walk away with all its sensitive information. But sometimes that’s not the case when it comes to online networks. Q6 Cyber, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in monitoring the dark web, showed CNBC a forum post in Russian where…
For $80 Million, Yahoo! Settles Shareholder Class Action Claiming Stock Price Losses from Data Breaches
Derek Borchardt and Craig A. Newman write: In the first notable resolution of a data breach-related securities fraud case, a federal court has preliminarily approved Yahoo!’s $80 million settlement based on multiple hacking incidents. As we reported, Yahoo! suffered two cyber-attacks in 2013 and 2014, which compromised the personal information of billions of users. Yahoo!,…