Jude Karabus reports: British clothes retailer Fatface has infuriated some customers by telling them “an unauthorised third party” gained access to systems holding their data earlier this year, and then asking them to keep news of the blunder to themselves. Several people wrote into The Register to let us know about the personal data leak, with reader…
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Solairus Aviation Notice Regarding Avianis Data Security Incident
PETALUMA, Calif., March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Solairus Aviation, a US-based aviation services company whose core business is assisting owners with the safe, reliable, and economical operation of their aircraft, announced that it identified and addressed a data security incident related to one of its third-party vendors. On December 23, 2020, Solairus was notified by a third-party vendor,…
Vengeful IT Contractor Sentenced to Two Years for Deleting Carlsbad Company’s Microsoft User Accounts
March 22 — Deepanshu Kher was sentenced today in federal court to two years in prison for accessing the server of a Carlsbad Company and deleting over 1,200 over the company’s 1,500 Microsoft User Accounts. According to court documents, Kher was employed by an information technology consulting firm from 2017 through May 2018. In 2017,…
Ca: Sierra Wireless Announces Ransomware Attack
VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR) (TSX: SW), the world’s leading IoT solutions provider, today announced that it discovered it was the subject of a ransomware attack on its internal IT systems on March 20, 2021. Once the company learned of the attack, its IT and operations teams immediately implemented measures to counter the…
TX: Sewell Family of Companies discloses breach
Seen on their web site: The Sewell Family of Companies has concluded an investigation into a data security incident that occurred August 1, 2020, when officials learned of an unauthorized attempt to access its network. At the time, SFC followed its protocol and immediately shut down its network to prevent further harm. SFC launched an…
MangaDex website taken offline following cyber-attack, data breach
The Daily Swig reports: A website that hosts free manga comics has been taken offline after malicious hackers allegedly gained access to a database that housed user data. The MangaDex site was taken down for maintenance last week (March 20) after an unknown actor gained access to an administrator account. The site’s maintainers said the attacker was…