Phil Muncaster reports: A misconfigured cloud storage bucket has exposed the personal details of hundreds of social media influencers, potentially putting them at risk of fraud and harassment, according to researchers. A team at vpnMentor discovered the AWS S3 bucket wide open with no encryption or password protection, back in early November. Action has apparently…
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Florence, 120 million euro cryptocurrency fraud: precautionary measure for former BitGrail administrator
Marco de Felice reports: Prohibition of business activities and to hold the executive offices of the Company, that the protective order against FF, former managing director of BitGrail a platform for exchange criptovalute ( exchange ) . According to the preliminary investigation judge Dr. Gianluca Mancuso, the 34-year-old Italian is allegedly responsible for a € 120 million IT fraud, fraudulent…
Ca: DuBreton Meats Victim of Cyber Attack
Fabienne Tercaefs reports (translation): A major outage has affected the company [Viandes Dubreton] and IT teams have been working to restore the situation since last night. The servers were affected and it is mainly the administrative services that are affected. Production is running normally. No confidential data appears to have been compromised. Several companies have…
Nintendo Conducted Invasive Surveillance Operation Against Homebrew Hacker
Leaked Nintendo documents have revealed a frightening surveillance operation carried out against a hacker who was researching exploits for the 3DS handheld. In addition to monitoring his private life, including aspects of his education, when he left the house and where he went, the company followed its target from his place of work in order…
CT: Attorney General Tong Resolves Data Breach Investigation of Sabre Hospitality Solutions
(Hartford, CT) – Attorney General Tong, along with the attorneys general of 27 states, has entered into a settlement with Sabre Corp. that resolves an investigation into the 2017 data breach of Sabre Hospitality Solutions’ hotel booking system. The breach exposed the data of approximately 1.3 million credit cards. The settlement requires a payment of…
De: Funke Media Group victim of cyberattack; widespread impact
NRZ reports (translation): The FUNKE media group, to which this website belongs, was the victim of a hacker attack on Tuesday. Numerous computer systems throughout Germany were affected – including our editorial offices and printing houses. The newspapers of the FUNKE media group can unfortunately only appear with an emergency issue on Wednesday. To ensure that all…