A recent survey of 500 U.S. law firms by Proton reported that one in five law firms were targeted in a cyberattack in the past year, and 8% of law firms (39% of those who reported a cyberattack) reported losing data or suffering exposure. To make matters even worse, Proton found that 65% weren’t familiar with…
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SK Telecom to be fined for late data breach report, ordered to waive cancellation fees, criminal investigation into them launched
SK Telecom continues to deal with the substantial consequences of a data breach affecting its 23 million customers. In early April, the telecom reportedly discovered signs of a massive leak of customers’ universal subscriber identity module (USIM) data due to a cyberattack. They offered free replacement of the USIMs to all their 23 million users,…
Louis Vuitton Korea suffers cyberattack as customer data leaked
Bloomberg reports: Louis Vuitton Korea suffered a cyberattack that compromised some customer data, the second time in recent months that hackers have targeted the world’s largest luxury group. The Korean unit of LVMH’s flagship brand said an “unauthorised third party” accessed its systems on June 8 and some customer information was leaked. No financial data…
Data breach reveals Catwatchful ‘stalkerware’ is spying on thousands of phones
Zack Whittaker reports: A security vulnerability in a stealthy Android spyware operation called Catwatchful has exposed thousands of its customers, including its administrator. The bug, which was discovered by security researcher Eric Daigle, spilled the spyware app’s full database of email addresses and plaintext passwords that Catwatchful customers use to access the data stolen from…
One in Five Law Firms Hit by Cyberattacks Over Past 12 Months
Caroline Byrne writes: One in five U.S. law firms were targeted in a cyberattack in the past year and nearly one in 10 lost data or suffered exposure, according to a comprehensive study by a Swiss tech company. The numbers, which demonstrate the extent to which the industry has become vulnerable to increasingly ruthless cybercriminals,…
Qantas customers involved in mammoth data breach
Vanessa Brown reports: Qantas has confirmed that six million customers could be impacted by a mammoth cyber incident at one of the airline’s contact centres, impacting personal data. The concerning incident was detected by the national carrier on Monday, after “unusual activity” on a third party platform used by Qantas was detected. While the airline…