Ghana Business News reports: For about five days now some customers of the largest electricity seller in the country, Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have been unable to buy power and others have had their power off for days without respite, because some sections of the company’s systems have been hacked, ghanabusinessnews.com has been told…
Category: Business Sector
Eight Shangri-La hotels in Asia hit by data breach, potentially exposing guest information
Eight Shangri-La hotels in Asia, including Singapore and Hong Kong, were hit by a data breach, potentially exposing guest information such as names, email addresses and phone numbers. […] “The investigation revealed that between May and July 2022, a sophisticated threat actor managed to bypass Shangri-La’s IT security monitoring systems undetected and illegally accessed the…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Cl (Update): Failure to patch resulted in an embarrassing government leak Last week, DataBreaches noted that Guacamaya Group hacktivists had leaked emails from El Estado Mayor Conjunto De Chile (EMCO), the advisory body of the Chilean Ministry of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other governments. Now BiobioChile reports the government is considering the…
British teenager, 18, denies creating computer virus that crashed hundreds of institutions when he was just 14
David O’Dornan and Paul Higgins report: A teenager today denied creating a computer virus which allegedly ‘crashed hundreds of financial institutions across the world when he was just 14 years old. Josh Maunder, now 18, from Abbey Park in Bangor, Co Down in Northern Ireland, entered not guilty pleas to each of the 21 charges against…
Optus tells former Virgin Mobile and Gomo customers they could also be part of data breach
Josh Taylor reports: Former Virgin Mobile and Gomo customers are the latest to have been informed by Optus that their personal information was exposed in the company’s massive data breach, as an identification repair service reveals it has fielded a month’s worth of complaint calls in three days. Read more at The Guardian. In related news, Hannah…
Swachh City Platform Suffers Data Breach Leaking 16 Million User Records
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: A threat actor by the name of LeakBase has shared a database containing personal information allegedly affecting 16 million users of Swachh City, an Indian complaint redressal platform. Leaked details include usernames, email addresses, password hashes, mobile numbers, one-time passwords, last logged-in times, and IP addresses, among others, according to a report…