Bharat Sharma reports: Personal information of hundreds of thousands of Indians was recently leaked, revealing details such as full names, dates of birth, home addresses, national IDs, and much more. The data breach was discovered by Safety Detectives and affected users of CashMama, a now-defunct money lending platform based in India. CashMama’s S3 bucket (a…
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Block confirms Cash App breach after former employee accessed US customer data
Carly Page reports: Block has confirmed a data breach involving a former employee who downloaded reports from Cash App that contained some U.S. customer information. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 4, Block — formerly known as Square — said that the reports were accessed by the insider on December 10. “While this…
Parker-Hannifin discloses breach in regulatory filing
Ciara Linnane reports: Parker Hannifin Corp. said Tuesday a third party breached its systems on March 14, and may have accessed data and personal information of its own employees. In a regulatory filing, the maker of technology for the aerospace and industrial sectors said it is working with law enforcement and cybersecurity experts to determine the extent…
UK: The Works forced to close shops after cyber attack
Henry Saker-Clark reports: The Works has said some stores have been forced to shut after a cybersecurity incident caused issues with its tills. The stationery and books retailer said the hack also resulted in new stock deliveries to its shops being temporarily suspended and longer delivery times for online orders. It said store deliveries “are…
I-SEC attacked by Conti threat actors
I-SEC is one of the main providers in the field of aviation security checks according to §5 LuftSiG (German Aviation Security Law) in Frankfurt. Conti threat actors added I-SEC to their leak site and have provided some proof of claim. There is no notice on I-SEC’s website at the time of this publication. DataBreaches.net sent…
Hackers breach MailChimp’s internal tools to target crypto customers
Lawrence Abrams reports: Email marketing firm MailChimp disclosed on Sunday that they had been hit by hackers who gained access to internal customer support and account management tools to steal audience data and conduct phishing attacks. Sunday morning, Twitter was abuzz with reports from owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets who received phishing notifications claiming that the company suffered…