Graeme Burton reports: Courier company TNT Express has warned that it is still being affected by the NotPetya malware almost a month after it struck, and “cannot estimate when TNT services will be fully restored”, according to a statement released by the company this week. Furthermore, the company added that it may not be able to…
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Lucchese computer hacker sentenced to 18-months in federal prison
Andra Litton has the follow-up to a case previously noted on this site: A disgruntled ex-employee of Lucchese Boots was sentenced to 18-months in federal prison and ordered to pay $57,396.76 in restitution Wednesday after pleading guilty to one count of transmission of a program to cause damage to a computer. The computer breach happened…
Ca: Loblaws suffers another online security breach
Patrick O’Rourke reports: According to an email sent out to Loblaws account holders, the security of a ‘small number’ of accounts has been compromised, marking the second time the company has suffered a security breach this year. The last time Loblaws’ websites suffered a breach, the company reset all subscriber passwords, though in that case…
Dow Jones Data Leak Results from Amazon AWS Configuration Error
Kelly Sheridan reports: A data leak at Dow Jones & Co. exposed the personal information of millions of customers after a public cloud configuration error. This marks the fifth major public cloud leak in the past several months after similar incidents affected Verizon, the WWE, US voter records, and Scottrade. This mistake compromised millions of…
Hacker Steals $7 Million Worth of Ethereum From CoinDash Platform
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An unknown hacker has taken over the official website of the CoinDash platform and modified an Ethereum wallet address during the company’s ICO (Initial Coin Offering). The hack took place today, just three minutes after CoinDash launched its ICO, which is something similar to an IPO. Read more on BleepingComputer. CoinDash did…
Ashley Madison parent corp in proposed $11.2 million data breach settlement
Jonathan Stempel reports: The owner of the Ashley Madison adultery website said on Friday it will pay $11.2 million to settle U.S. litigation brought on behalf of roughly 37 million users whose personal details were exposed in a July 2015 data breach. Ruby Corp, formerly known as Avid Life Media Inc, denied wrongdoing in agreeing…