NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris today secured $11.3 million in penalties from two auto insurance companies, the Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) and The Travelers Indemnity Company (Travelers), for having poor data security which led to the personal information…
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Tesla data breach falsely claimed by IntelBroker, third-party EV charging firm actually breached
Daniel Croft reports: The incident was claimed by CyberN—–s members IntelBroker and EnergyWeaponUser, who originally said it was a Tesla EV charging station database containing files that belonged to Tesla. However, thanks to a tipoff by researcher DarkWebInformer and IntCyberDigest, the threat actors amended the listing to say it was a “random 3rd party company…
Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach
Brian Krebs reports: The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Finastra, which provides software and services to 45 of the world’s top 50 banks, notified customers of the security incident after a cybercriminal began selling more than 400 gigabytes of data purportedly…
T-Mobile Hack Linked To Chinese State Sponsored Hackers
Lars Daniel reports: T-Mobile is the latest telecommunications company to report being impacted by a large-scale cyber-espionage campaign linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers. While T-Mobile has stated that customer data and critical systems have not been significantly affected, the breach is part of a broader attack on major telecom providers, raising concerns about the security…
T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in recent wave of telecom breaches
Lawrence Abrams reports: T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in the wave of recently reported telecom breaches conducted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to private communications, call records, and law enforcement information requests. “T-Mobile is closely monitoring this industry-wide attack, and at this time, T-Mobile systems and data have not been impacted in any significant…
Turkey fines Amazon’s Twitch 2 million lira for data breach
Canan Sevgili of Reuters reports: Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) has fined Amazon.com’s gaming platform Twitch 2 million lira ($58,000) over a data breach, the official Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday. KVKK launched an investigation after a 125 GB data leak. It found that Twitch had failed to take adequate security measures beforehand, addressing…