Carly Page reports: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has confirmed it’s experienced a data breach after being listed as a victim by the LockBit ransomware gang. The Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang listed TSMC on its dark web leak site on Thursday. The gang is threatening to publish data stolen from the company,…
Category: Business Sector
I had been chatting with a blackhat. They had been working with a whitehat. We were both dealing with the same person.
On April 18, DataBreaches reported that more details had emerged on the arrest of three men by Dutch police in January. The three were suspected of hacking and extorting victims in the Netherlands and elsewhere, obtaining and selling data online, and money laundering. A fourth person linked to the suspects known as “DataBox” had previously…
Lawyer censured for using TeamViewer to snoop on former firm’s business activity
Here’s your reminder for today about the insider threat. Debra Cassens Weiss reports: A lawyer in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, has been censured after acknowledging that he “fell into stupid” and accessed his former law firm’s computer system to monitor his former partner’s business activity. The New Jersey Supreme Court censured lawyer Justin L. Scott…
Pilot Applicant Information for American, Southwest Hacked
Nate Nelson reports: Hackers breached a database maintained by Pilot Credentials, a recruiting company based in Austin, Texas, resulting in the theft of personal information from more than 8,000 pilot applicants for American Airlines and Southwest Airlines. The compromised data includes names, birth dates, Social Security and passport numbers, as well as driver- and pilot-license…
LetMeSpy, a phone tracking app spying on thousands, says it was hacked
Zack Whittaker reports: A hacker has stolen the messages, call logs and locations intercepted by a widely used phone monitoring app called LetMeSpy, according to the company that makes the spyware. The phone monitoring app, which is used to spy on thousands of people using Android phones around the world, said in a notice on its…
UK: Prosecution of tracing agent for illegally obtaining personal information
An enforcement action and prosecution was announced by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office this week: A former tracing agent pleaded guilty and was fined for illegally obtaining personal information to check if customers of a high street bank could repay their debts. Michael Isaacs, 80, from Epsom, Surrey was the sole director of Datasearch Services…