Jake Holland reports: Camera and lens manufacturer Canon U.S.A. Inc. was hit with a proposed class action after a ransomware attack exposed current and former employees’ personal information. The plaintiffs—residents of Ohio, New York, Florida, and Illinois—allege that the company acted negligently and violated several state trade practices laws by failing to guard against the threat, according…
Category: Business Sector
5th Avenue Theatre Takes Action Following Theft of Employee Data in August
SEATTLE, Dec. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The 5th Avenue Theatre (the “Theatre”) announced today that it suffered a break-in and theft which it first learned of on August 30, 2020 (the “Incident”). The Incident occurred overnight on August 29, 2020 where unauthorized individuals broke into the Theatre, among other offices in the building, and stole certain computer back-up tapes and specialized equipment which…
Sangoma Technologies Confirms Data Breach as Result of Ransomware Attack
A press release from Sangoma follows. BleepingComputer reported on the fact that they were hit by Conti ransomware. MARKHAM, Ontario, Dec. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sangoma Technologies Corporation (TSXV: STC) (the “Company” or “Sangoma”) announced that, as a result of a ransomware cyber attack on one of the Company’s servers, private and confidential data…
GoDaddy cold-hearted phishing exercise got employees’ hopes up — only to dash them
GoDaddy really f***ed up. There’s simply no other way to put it even though they try to justify it by saying that they mimicked really forces in play these days. On December 23, Lorraine Longhi tweeted: With the holidays around the corner, GoDaddy employees received an email last week offering some welcome financial relief: a…
NetGalley breach: Publishing industry website forces password reset following ‘security incident’
Adam Bannister reports: NetGalley – a website that gives book reviewers pre-release access to new titles – has warned users about a data breach that may have exposed their passwords and other personal data. “What initially seemed like a simple defacement of our homepage has, with further investigation, resulted in the unauthorized and unlawful access to…
NL: Cyber attack hits IP telephony supplier Innovaphone
Alfred Monterie reports (translation:) Innovaphone, a provider of business IP telephony solutions, has been hit by a hacker. The attacker may have gained access to customer data. The German manufacturer does not believe that this is likely, but it cannot be completely ruled out that this information has fallen into the wrong hands. Innovaphone thinks the hacker’s…