Monitorul reports (translation): The company Unix Auto SRL, the largest supplier of car parts in Transylvania based in Cluj-Napoca is subject to a cyber attack, the hackers demanding a considerable amount of money to return the company’s database. Unix Auto currently has supply points in all cities and municipalities in Transylvania. Thus, the car parts supplier…
Category: Business Sector
Hackers Hit Italian Menswear Brand Boggi Milano With Ransomware
Daniele Lepido reports: A group of hackers executed a ransomware attack Wednesday on Italian menswear premium brand Boggi Milano, according to people familiar with the matter and documents seen by Bloomberg. … The hacker group called Ragnarok said on its dark web blog that it targeted Boggi Milano servers and stole about 40 gigabytes of corporate…
NZ: Allied Press hit by data breach
This afternoon Allied Press was contacted by Government cyber security organisation Cert NZ about a data breach affecting its ODT Archive service. Those affected by the breach have been sent an email containing more information. Read more on Otago Daily Times. Since Allied Press owns Otago Daily Times and is a news outlet, you’d hope…
Hackers threaten shipping firm ECU Worldwide with data leak
Nate Tabak reports: A ransomware gang is threatening to release a massive trove of data stolen from shipping firm ECU Worldwide more than a month after a cyberattack caused serious disruptions to its online platforms. The Mount Locker ransomware gang claimed in a post to its leak site on Sunday that it had taken 2…
Booking.com hit with €475K penalty for failing to report a breach within 72 hours
Politico reports: Hotel booking site Booking.com got hit with a €475,000 fine for being late to report a data breach, the company’s lead EU privacy regulator announced Wednesday. The fine, imposed by the Dutch data protection authority because the company is legally established in Amsterdam, came after criminals stole the personal data of more than…
Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
Brian Krebs reports: On Jan. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. Now a source who participated in the response to that breach alleges Ubiquiti…