On July 9, the Royatonic spa in France suffered a ransomware attack. A notice on their web site informs people that as of July 12, the spa had to close because a cyberattack blocked access to their server and paralyzed all their activity. COMPUTER PROBLEM Royatonic regrets to close its doors on Monday July 12th….
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Za: Bank account details stolen in major insurance hack in South Africa
Jan Vermeulen reports: An attack on debit order collection company Qsure has impacted several South African insurers who use its services, including Hollard and Guardrisk. Australian security researcher Troy Hunt recently posted a notice from Ooba to its clients saying that although they do not yet know if any Guardrisk and Ooba clients were affected,…
Microsoft discovers SolarWinds zero-day exploited in the wild
Catalin Cimpanu reports: US software company SolarWinds has released security updates on Saturday to patch a vulnerability in its Serv-U file transferring technology that is being actively exploited in the wild. The attacks and the vulnerability were discovered by Microsoft, SolarWinds said in a security advisory published over the weekend. Read more on The Record.
Spreadshop hacked. T-shirt lovers warned of “considerably vicious” data breach
Graham Cluley reports: Clients of Spreadshirt, Spreadshop, and TeamShirts have been warned of a data breach which has seen the details of customers, partners, and employees fall into the lap of cybercriminals. News of the breach first emerged on Thursday when customers were warned by email of a “security incident” involving an “unauthorised third party.” At the…
Millennia Group notifying people of 2019 email breach
Ohio-headquartered The Millennia Companies are involved in housing management. On some date that this site does not yet know, they learned that there had been unauthorized access to some employee email accounts between October 21, 2019 and December 18, 2019. “The Millennia Companies immediately launched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals who regularly investigate…
Follow-up: Forensic audit didn’t reveal any unauthorized access to customer data: Mobikwik
Mint reports: Payments firm One Mobikwik Systems Ltd on Monday, in its draft IPO prospectus, said that a forensic audit conducted by an independent expert did not reveal any unauthorized access to its customer database in March. The alleged data breach came to light in March after unknown actors claimed they were selling Mobikwik’s data on the…