Khaleej Times reports: If you were a regular customer of ride-sharing service Careem, this piece of news might leave you worried. The Dubai-based company today acknowledged that a cyber attack on January 14, 2018 resulted in the theft of personal data of up to 14 million people in Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey….
Category: Business Sector
Ca: 1,100 Hamilton residents’ emails compromised following data breach
Lisa Polewski reports: The emails of about 1,100 residents have been compromised following a data breach of two waste collection apps, according to the city of Hamilton. Municipal Media Inc., the service provider for Recycle Coach and My Waste, reported the data breach to the city and several other municipalities earlier this week. Read more…
A Private Intelligence Platform, LocalBlox, Leaked 48 Million Personal Data Records
New from UpGuard: The UpGuard Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that a cloud storage repository containing information belonging to LocalBlox, a personal and business data search service, was left publicly accessible, exposing 48 million records of detailed personal information on tens of millions of individuals, gathered and scraped from multiple sources. This data includes…
INM Data Breach: Main players brace for what’s next in crisis
Eamon Quinn reports: Ireland’s largest publishing firm, the stock market-listed Independent News and Media, has been thrown into crisis amid serious allegations by the State’s corporate enforcer that include claims of governance misdeeds and email hacks. Read more on Irish Examiner.
A North Carolina Federal Court Allows A Treble Damages Claim In Employee Data-Breach Lawsuit
Alex Pearce of Ellis & Winters LLP writes: As we have explored before, a common scam known as “W-2 phishing” can put companies in the crosshairs for data-breach lawsuits brought by their employees. In honor of Tax Day, today’s post examines an interesting recent decision from a North Carolina federal court in one of these…
TaskRabbit Takes Down App and Website After Getting Hacked
Catalin Cimpanu reports: TaskRabbit, a web-based service that connects freelance handymen with clients in various local US markets, has emailed customers admitting it suffered a security breach. The company has taken down its app and website while law enforcement and a private cyber-security firm are investigating the incident. The hack appears to have taken place…