Mark Holden of Website Planet reports on a big Oops! involving Prestige Software in Spain and a misconfigured AWS bucket: Courtesy of our security team at Website Planet, we can reveal that a hotel reservation platform has been exposing highly sensitive data from millions of hotel guests worldwide, dating as far back as 2013 and including…
Category: Business Sector
Compal, the second-largest laptop manufacturer in the world, hit by ransomware
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Compal, a Taiwanese electronics company that builds laptops for some of the world’s largest computer brands, suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend. Responsible for the breach is believed to be the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang, according to a screenshot of the ransom note shared by Compal employees with Yahoo Taiwan reporters. Read…
Ransomware hits e-commerce platform X-Cart
Catalin Cimpanu reports: E-commerce software vendor X-Cart suffered a ransomware attack at the end of October that brought down customer stores hosted on the company’s hosting platform. The incident is believed to have taken place after attackers exploited a vulnerability in a third-party software to gain access to X-Cart’s store hosting systems. Read more on ZDNet. h/t,…
FTC Requires Zoom to Enhance its Security Practices as Part of Settlement
Let’s start with the FTC’s press release in Zoom Video Communications, Inc., In the Matter of Matter Number: 192 3167 The Federal Trade Commission today announced a settlement with Zoom Video Communications, Inc. that will require the company to implement a robust information security program to settle allegations that the video conferencing provider engaged in a series…
Alibaba-Backed Bigbasket Suffers Major Data Loss in Cyberattack
Saritha Rai has more on the BigBasket breach reported this past week: Cyberattackers have stolen the personal details of million users of top Indian internet grocer Bigbasket, the latest e-commerce data breach to emerge as home-bound consumers flock online. Bigbasket co-founder and chief executive officer Hari Menon confirmed the attack, which was first reported by…
Luxottica has a lot more explaining to do
Update: My source was correct. On November 12, HHS added Luxottica’s report to their public breach tool. Luxottica reported, as a business associate, that 829,454 patients were impacted by the August breach. In September, we learned that the eyewear giant Luxottica had suffered a massive ransomware attack that resulted in its suspending operations in both…