Hessenchau reports: During hygiene checks in a Frankfurt restaurant, investigators came across a suspected crypto farm. This is not only illegal, but also dangerous in this case: the computers were next to gas bottles. While inspecting a restaurant in downtown Frankfurt, investigators from the city police came across a suspected crypto farm. It was literally…
Category: Business Sector
AIG unit must defend Texas retailer Landry’s in data breach case
Judy Greenwald reports: A federal appeals court reversed a lower court Wednesday and ruled an American International Group Inc. unit is obligated to defend a retailer in connection with a data breach. Houston-based Landry’s Inc., which operates retail properties including restaurants, hotels and casinos, discovered a data breach that occurred between May 2014 and December…
Gun owners’ fears after firearms dealer data breach
Holly Clemens & Chris Vallance report: Thousands of names and addresses belonging to UK customers of a leading website for buying and selling shotguns and rifles have been published to the dark web following a “security breach”. Guntrader.uk told the BBC it learned of the breach on Monday and had notified the Information Commissioner’s Office….
Za: Transnet reports disruption on its IT network, employees told to shut down
Transnet SOC Ltd is a large South African rail, port and pipeline company. Today, they tweeted that they were experiencing a disruption: Transnet experiencing disruption on its IT network pic.twitter.com/bGwGweySL0 — Transnet SOC Ltd (@follow_transnet) July 22, 2021 Transnet experiencing disruption on its IT network [Johannesburg; 22 July 2021] Transnet Ltd SOC (“Transnet”) is currently…
Kaseya obtains universal decryptor for REvil ransomware victims
Lawrence Abrams reports: … Today, Kaseya has stated that they received a universal decryptor for the ransomware attack from a “trusted third party” and are now distributing it to affected customers. “We can confirm we obtained a decryptor from a trusted third party but can’t share anymore about the source,” Kaseya’s SVP Corporate Marketing Dana…
Man Arrested in Connection with Alleged Role in July 2020 Twitter Hack
SAN FRANCISCO – A citizen of the United Kingdom was arrested today in Estepona, Spain by Spanish national police pursuant to a U.S. request for his arrest on multiple charges in connection with the July 2020 hack of Twitter that resulted in the compromise of over 130 Twitter accounts, including those belonging to politicians, celebrities,…