Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius report that the timing of the attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange right before Microsoft could push patches out has Microsoft considering whether there was some leak that alerted the hackers: Microsoft is now investigating the possibility of a leak that may have triggered these mass Exchange compromises ahead of…
Category: Business Sector
Overseas Service Corporation notification of a breach
Another report we may not see on HHS’s public breach tool but that involves health information. This reads like it is a notification to employees based on the types of data involved, but it doesn’t actually say who the breach impacted. Overseas Service Corporation (“OSC”) announced today a phishing email incident that involved a small…
Fastway Couriers Notifies Irish Data Protection Commission of a Hack
Ciara Plunkett reports: The Irish Data Protection Commission says it’s received a breach notification from Fastway Couriers. The customer data impacted includes: names, addresses, email accounts and phone numbers, but the company says nobody’s financial data was at risk. Read more on KFM. Updated March 13: NewsTalk has some more details: The company has confirmed…
Multi-state settlement in 2019 American Medical Collection Agency breach
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced an agreement between a bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general from around the nation and the Westchester County debt collection agency Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, d/b/a American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), that resolves a multistate investigation into the company’s 2019 data breach. The breach exposed the personal information —…
Cyber attack causes systems outage at Molson Coors
Yesterday, WTMJ reported: Molson Coors was the target of a cyber attack, the company confirmed to WTMJ on Wednesday. The brewery experienced a “systems outage due to a cyber-security incident,” according to Adam Collins, the company’s chief communications and corporate affairs officer. While some outlets questioned whether the attack might be related to the Microsoft…
JP: Unauthorized access occurred in Urban Research; personal information of about 310,000 people leaked
Translation: Urban Research has announced that the official in the online store by the unauthorized access by a third party, personal information of 317,326 persons of all member there is a fear that has flowed out. The leaked information does not include credit card numbers, and no secondary damage such as unauthorized use has been…