Global Times reports: Hackers attacked a popular Chinese video-sharing site, breaching millions of private data including encrypted passwords, according to an emergency notice from the site on Wednesday. AcFun, the site for the comics and games community, urged its users on Weibo to immediately change their passwords since “nearly 10 million users’ data have been…
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HealthEquity reports email breach that compromised health information
ClickOnDetroit reports a press release from HealthEquity. From the notification/press release: HealthEquity has notified individuals potentially impacted by a security incident. A single employee’s email account was accessed by an unauthorized individual that may have culminated in disclosure of protected health information. The incident occurred on April 11, 2018 and was discovered on April 13,…
Slovakia is facing multiple attacks by hackers
The Slovak Spectator reports: The Slovak online space has been facing massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by hackers from all over the world in recent days, the National Network and Electronic Services Agency (NASES) reported on June 12. Besides other Slovak websites, the hackers have attacked the Slovak Hydro-meteorological Institute (SHMÚ) website –…
Dixons Says Almost 6 Million Cards Targeted in Cyberattack
Eric Pfanner and Sam Chambers report: A cyberattack at Dixons Carphone Plc affected almost 6 million payment cards as hackers sought access to customers’ personal data in another challenge for new Chief Executive Officer Alex Baldock. The retailer, already struggling with a slowing mobile phone market in the U.K. and the rise of Amazon.com Inc.,…
Yahoo! UK fined £250,000 by ICO after systemic failures put customer data at risk
From the ICO’s office: Yahoo! UK Services Limited has been fined £250,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) following a cyber-attack in November 2014. The incident was publicly disclosed in September 2016, almost two years after it had taken place. Because of when the breach happened, the ICO’s investigation was carried out under the Data…
Delta sued over 2017 breach not disclosed to them for six months by third-party vendor
Christina Davis reports on a class action suit filed against Delta Airlines where the main complaint appears to be that customers were first notified of the hack until six months after it occurred. […] According to the Delta class action lawsuit, the third party running the online chat room knew of the data breach for…