Alex Scroxton reports: Employees and former employees of the UK business of Japanese cosmetics firm Shiseido who found their personal information had been exposed in a data breach are being asked to come forward to take part in a proposed group legal action against the company. The breach took place in the spring of 2022 and was…
Category: Business Sector
AU: ING fined for missed data deadlines breach
Adrian Black reports: The competition watchdog has handed out more than $50,000 in fines to ING bank over missed deadlines and misleading website statements. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleged ING missed three deadlines for its Consumer Data Right (CDR) rollout and misled consumers on the reliability and security of its service. Read more…
Social Blade admits to being hacked
Damien Black reports: A popular data analytics tool that tracks YouTube and other major social media platforms has admitted to being hacked. Social Blade issued a statement saying it had been notified of a systems breach on December 14, while insisting no credit card data had been leaked. However, it said other personally identifying information,…
Former Twitter employee sentenced to more than three years in prison for spying for Saudi Arabia
Kevin Collier reports: A former Twitter employee found guilty of spying on users on behalf of the Saudi royal family has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Ahmad Abouammo, a dual U.S.-Lebanese citizen who helped oversee media partnerships for Twitter in the Middle East and North Africa, was part of a scheme to…
TPG Telecom says up to 15,000 email accounts of business customers hacked
Reuters reports: Australia’s No. 2 telecom provider TPG Telecom Ltd (TPG.AX) said on Wednesday its cyber security adviser Mandiant notified the company of unauthorised access to an exchange service that hosts email accounts of up to 15,000 business customers. The hack was an attempt to access customers’ cryptocurrency and financial information, TPG said. Read more…
Uber suffers new data breach after attack on vendor, info leaked online
Lawrence Abrams reports: Early Saturday morning, a threat actor named ‘UberLeaks’ began leaking data they claimed was stolen from Uber and Uber Eats on a hacking forum known for publishing data breaches. The leaked data includes numerous archives claiming to be source code associated with mobile device management platforms (MDM) used by Uber and Uber Eats…