John Hand reports: Irish commuters have been warned that a company which allows people book and pay for parking by text, app and online is investigating whether their data has been breached after a service outage. Mr Parker, which functions at 300 Luas and Irish Rail car parks, informed customers this evening that some sensitive…
Category: Business Sector
CNIL Fines Rental Car Company for Data Security Failure Attributable to Third-Party Service Provider
Hunton & Williams explain: On July 27, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) imposed a fine of €40,000 on a French affiliate of the rental car company, The Hertz Corporation, for failure to ensure the security of website users’ personal data. On October 15, 2016, the CNIL was informed of the existence of a…
Hackers Leak Data From Mandiant Security Researcher in Operation #LeakTheAnalyst
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Earlier today, a hacker group named 31337 Hackers has leaked personal details and files belonging to a security researcher working for Mandiant, FireEye’s breach investigation unit. The leak came to light today after hackers posted a message on PasteBin. Two download links for the stolen data were included. The password-protected archives contained…
HBO hacked: Hackers threaten to leak Game of Thrones (UPDATED)
Update: I made e-mail contact with the hackers earlier today. This really doesn’t seem to be the work of TheDarkOverlord at all. One of the hackers, who identified himself as “Mr. Smith” to me claims that they have “gathered most imporatnt files and films & scripts and so on.” (sic), and that they have ”…
Ransomware: Canadian company pays $425,000
Luke Irwin writes: A Canadian organization has reportedly paid criminals $425,000 in bitcoin after its systems were crippled in a ransomware attack. The claim comes from Daniel Tobok, CEO of forensic firm Cytelligence, which he says is helping with the investigation. Tobok, speaking to IT World Canada, didn’t name the affected company, but said unpatched…
No Harm, No Lawsuit: Court Dismisses VTech Litigation
In November, 2015, this site noted a breach involving VTech. At the time, Motherboard reported: The hacked data includes names, email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents who have bought products sold by VTech, which has almost $2 billion in revenue. The dump also includes the first names, genders and birthdays of more than 200,000 kids….