Eric Newcomer reports: Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc., a massive breach that the company concealed for more than a year. This week, the ride-hailing company ousted Joe Sullivan, chief security officer, and one of his deputies for their roles in keeping the hack under wraps….
Category: Exposure
Dark Web Shops Are Leaking IPs Left and Right
If you’re not reading Catalin Cimpanu every day or following him on Twitter, you’re missing some good stuff. Here’s what he reported a few days ago: The takedown of three major Dark Web markets by law enforcement officials over the summer has driven many vendors of illegal products to set up their own shops that,…
AU: Sensitive ABC data exposed in leak
Nick Evans reports: Sensitive details of many of the ABC’s commercial customers have been exposed in a major data breach, according to a German IT security firm, potentially offering up a “trove of data” on its business activities. Kromtech Security Centre said yesterday ABC Commercial, the publicly funded broadcaster’s licensing, retail and publishing business, accidentally…
SG: School’s data breach spooks students
Jan Lee reports: Ex-students from Xinmin Secondary School received a shock yesterday when they found out that their alma mater had suffered a data breach. Several told The New Paper they received calls from their former school yesterday, informing them that their names and identity card numbers had been leaked on pastebin.com, self-described as “where…
UK: Consultants’ letters about 9 patients given to wrong patient
Elgan Hearn reports that the ICO is investigating a breach involving sensitive information of nine patients. An envelope containing the nine letters from a consultant for patients right across Shropshire were wrongly included in a letter sent to a patient in Newtown. The envelope was passed on to health campaigner Cllr Joy Jones, who brought the…
Pentagon Exposed Some Of Its Data On Amazon Server
CNN reports: A researcher says the Pentagon exposed huge amounts of web-monitoring data in a security failure. Anyone with a free Amazon Web Services account could have looked at the hoard of information stored in the cloud by the U.S. Defense Department, according to Chris Vickery, a researcher at cybersecurity firm UpGuard who discovered the exposure. Read more…