Michael Bleby reports the latest developments in the wake of a breach involving Landmark White (now known as Acumentis): ASX-listed valuer LandMark White’s cyber security standards will come under the spotlight this week, as the trial kicks off of an IT contractor accused of stealing customer data from the firm and putting it on the…
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American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association hack impacted more than 161,000
The American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association, a non-profit organization in Virginia that provides insurance and benefits services to the military community, is notifying 161,621 individuals of a hacking incident. On January 29, AAFMAA became aware of suspicious activity on its system. Their investigation revealed that an unauthorized party had first gained access to certain…
Massive Supply-Chain Cyberattack Breaches Several Airlines
The SITA breach that also impacted 580,000 Singapore Airlines customers is getting more attention as more and more airlines issue statements to their customers. Now my friends are even sending me emails they receive from airlines. You can read SITA’s disclosure on their site.
Spirit Airlines hit by Nefilim ransomware – Report
Marco De Felice reports: In these hours, the ransomware group Nefilim has published on the dark web a first part of data stolen from the American “ultra low cost” company Spirit Airlines. The first block contains over 40GB of data with over 33,000 files. Financial data, personal information of customers who purchased tickets to fly with…
Data of 580,000 Singapore Airlines customers leaked in SITA security breach
Toh Ting Wei reports: About 580,000 Singapore Airlines (SIA) customers have been affected by a data leak at an external firm. SIA said in a statement yesterday that members of its KrisFlyer and PPS Club reward programmes have had their membership numbers, tier status and, in some cases, membership names compromised. […] SIA said the…
The Accellion breach also impacted Qualys; threat actors start dumping files
As I noted yesterday on Twitter, Qualys was added to threat actor CLOP’s leak site, raising the question as to whether the firm had been an Accellion client. They had. Qualys issued a statement later yesterday. It said, in part: Qualys has confirmed that there is no impact on the Qualys production environments, codebase or…