Sam Varghese reports: Automotive services provider Inchcape Australia appears to have been compromised by the Windows Ransomexx ransomware, with the cyber criminals who hit the company leaking some data that they stole, on the dark web. Read more on ITwire. Sam details all the attempts they made to get in touch with the company to…
Category: Business Sector
HU: Brendon notifies customers of ransomware attack
HVG.hu reports (translated): On Wednesday morning, Brendon Gyermekáruház Kft. Informed its customers by e-mail that its system was affected by a cyber attack. As a result, not only did user accounts and online shopping become inaccessible for a while, but attackers also had access to user data. The company writes as early as December 19, it…
Bittrex To Delist Privacy Coins Monero, ZCash and Dash in Two Weeks
Decrypt.co reports: Crypto exchange Bittrex today announced that it will delist privacy coins Monero (XMR), ZCash and Dash on Friday, January 15, at 23:00 UTC. The Bermuda-registered exchange did not provide a reason for the delistings, but all three are privacy coins—a class of cryptocurrencies that offer untraceable transactions. Monero is private by default, and…
Microsoft says Russians hacked its network, viewing source code
Ellen Nakashima reports: Russian government hackers engaged in a sweeping series of breaches of government and private-sector networks have been able to penetrate deeper into Microsoft’s systems than previously known, gaining access to potentially valuable source code, the tech giant said Thursday. The firm previously acknowledged that it had inadvertently downloaded a software patch used…
IndiGo Says Some Data May be Compromised in Server Breach
Ragini Saxena reports: IndiGo, India’s biggest airline, said some segments of its data servers were breached in a hacking incident in December, which may compromise some data. “There is a possibility that some internal documents may get uploaded by the hackers on public websites and platforms,” IndiGo said in a statement Thursday. “We realise the…
ROMWE’s press release reflects an abundance of …. something, but not caution.
This week, I drafted a commentary mocking ROMWE’s for claiming that they were notifying their consumers about a breach out of “an abundance of caution.” Then I decided to try to be nice, and I trashed it. Yesterday, Marco de Felice wrote a piece about the breach that shows that it was even worse than…