Paul Kunert reports: The Centre for Computing History (CCH) in Cambridge, England, has apologised for an “embarrassing” breach in its online customer datafile, though thankfully no payment card information was exposed. The museum for computers and video games said it was notified that a unique email address used to book tickets via its website “has…
Category: Business Sector
Attorney General James Directs Unregistered Crypto Lending Platforms to Cease Operations In New York, Announces Additional Investigations
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced new efforts she is taking to protect New York investors, and the trading markets more generally, from exploitation by high-risk virtual currency schemes. Virtual or “crypto” currency lending platforms are essentially interest-bearing accounts that offer investors a rate of return on virtual currencies that…
Kemper Proposes $17.6M Settlement of Data Breach Claims
Insurance Journal reports and update on litigation stemming from a breach previously noted on this site. Kemper Insurance has proposed to settle a class action stemming from two data breaches in a deal valued at about $17.6 million. The dual breaches could have compromised the personal information of an estimated 6.1 million customers and employees….
Sinclair TV network crippled by potential ransomware attack
Sergiu Gatlan reports: TV stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group broadcast television company went down over the weekend across the US, with multiple sources telling BleepingComputer a ransomware attack caused the downtime. Sinclair Broadcast Group is a Fortune 500 media company (with annual revenues of $5.9 billion in 2020) and a leading local sports and…
Acer under fire: Now hackers claim to have hit Acer Taiwan, too
DESORDEN threat actors are still going after Acer, it seems. In addition to their recent revelation that they exfiltrated 60 GB of data from Acer India — a breach that Acer confirmed — they have alerted DataBreaches.net that they have also successfully attacked Acer in Taiwan. In a statement to DataBreaches.net, the threat actors write:…
Adult students’ SSNs from more than 60 years ago caught up in Ohio breach
One of the recurring themes in this site’s blog posts this year has been the fact that way too many entities not only store old data, but fail to secure it or protect it adequately from malware attacks or other attacks. Today’s unhappy example comes to us from Apollo Career Center (“Apollo”), an adult education…