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…
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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…
Misconfigured AWS Bucket Exposes Hundreds of Social Influencers
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…
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…