Natasha Bernal reports: Fortnum & Mason has admitted that thousands of customers have had their personal data stolen in a cyber attack on the upmarket grocer. The retailer said that around 23,000 of its shoppers had seen their names, email addresses and home addresses, as well as social media handles, compromised by hackers. The breach occurred…
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Humana notifies members after credential stuffing attack on Humana.com and Go365.com
Health insurer Humana recently began notifying an unspecified number of health plan members after detecting and blocking a credential stuffing attack against Humana.com and Go365.com. The attacks took place on June 3 and June 4 from overseas IP addresses. In a notification letter dated June 21, Jim Theiss, Humana’s Chief Privacy Officer, writes: On June 3,…
Mysterious Algonquin College cyber attack could affect thousands
Kelly Egan reports: Even weeks after its discovery, Algonquin College is still not sure how many current and former students and employees are affected by a cyber attack that breached data banks. However, a news release on Friday suggested thousands could be impacted after one of the college’s servers was “compromised” by a hacker. It…
Notre Dame de Namur University notifying financial aid applicants of data security incident
Notre Dame de Namur University is notifying some financial aid applicants that their information may have been compromised when an employee fell prey to a phishing attack. In its notification letter (reproduced below), Henry Roth, the Chief Financial Officer and VP of Administration, writes that the university learned of the possible compromise on May 18. Investigation…
Typeform Announces Breach After Hacker Grabs Backup File
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Barcelona-based online survey and form building service Typeform announced a data breach today after an unknown attacker downloaded a backup file containing sensitive customer information. The backup file contained data gathered by Typeform customers through surveys and online forms up until May 3, 2018. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Linux distro hacked on GitHub, “all code considered compromised”
Paul Ducklin writes: Data breaches are always bad news, and this one is peculiarly bad. Gentoo, a popular distribution of Linux, has had its GitHub repository hacked. Hacked, as in “totally pwned”, taken over, and modified; so far, no one seems to be sure quite how or why. That’s the bad news. Fortunately (we like…