AOF (Translation): The MND group was the victim, on the night of March 22 to 23, 2021, of a malicious software intrusion on some of its servers in France and Austria. For security reasons, all the group’s servers have been disconnected and stopped in order to avoid any propagation to the rest of the information system. “This…
Category: Business Sector
Data breach at car companies may affect millions of Dutch people
Joost Schellevis reports (translated): The private addresses and telephone numbers of potentially millions of Dutch people have fallen into the hands of criminals. They have been stolen from a company that provides car garages with ICT services. In addition to name and address details, it also concerns e-mail addresses, license plates, telephone numbers and dates of birth,…
Top insurer CNA disconnects systems after cyberattack
Tim Starks reports: CNA, one of the U.S.’s top providers of cybersecurity insurance, is struggling with a cyberattack that prompted it to disconnect its systems from its network. Its website hasn’t been working for the last couple days, and at press time displayed the message, “The attack caused a network disruption and impacted certain CNA…
Clothes retailer Fatface: Someone’s broken in and accessed your personal data, including partial card payment details… Don’t tell anyone
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…
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,…