Bill Toulas reports: French retailer Auchan is informing that some sensitive data associated with loyalty accounts of several hundred thousand of its customers was exposed in a cyberattack. The company is sending data breach notifications to customers affected by the incident. “We are writing to inform you that Auchan has been the victim of a…
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Farmers Insurance says 1 million customers affected by cyberattack on third-party vendor
Jonathan Greig reports: More than one million customers of Farmers Insurance and its subsidiaries were impacted by a cyberattack on a third-party vendor. Farmers Insurance, Farmers Insurance Exchange and several other affiliated companies filed breach notification documents in Maine, California and Massachusetts on Friday while also providing notice on the company website. The company, which is itself a subsidiary of Zurich…
Major Cyberattack Disrupts Communication On Dozens Of Iranian Ships
Marine Insight reports that an attack on Fannava, an Iranian firm that offers satellite communications, has disrupted communications for 30 oil tankers and 25 cargo ships, severing links between ships and their ports. A hacking group which calls itself ‘Lip-Dochtjan’ or The Sewn Lips told Iran International that it had breached the systems of the…
Intel Websites Compromised, Allowing Hackers Access to Employee and Confidential Data
Divya reports: A series of critical security flaws in Intel’s internal web infrastructure exposed the personal details of more than 270,000 employees and potentially provided attackers with access to sensitive corporate and supplier information. The discoveries highlight severe weaknesses across multiple Intel-owned websites, raising broader concerns about the company’s handling of web application security. According…
Orange Belgium S A informs its customers about a cyberattack
Statement from Orange Belgium S.A. on August 20 2025: At the end of July, Orange Belgium detected a cyberattack on one of its IT systems, resulting in unauthorised access to certain data from 850,000 customer accounts. No critical data was compromised: no passwords, email addresses, bank or financial details were hacked. However, the hacker gained…
Thousands more Afghans affected by second data breach, ministers say
Serena Barker-Singh reports: Up to 3,700 Afghans brought to the UK between January and March 2024 have potentially been impacted as names, passport details and information from the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy has been compromised again, this time by a breach on a third party supplier used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This was not…