OneTrust Data Guidance reports: Isetan Mitsukoshi Co., Ltd and MI Card Co., Ltd announced, on 5 August 2020, that they had suffered a data breach affecting approximately 19,000 customers as a result of unauthorised access. In particular, MI Card noted that the data breach occurred on the Isetan Mitsukoshi Online Store as well as MI Card’s homepage. In…
Category: Business Sector
Uber Exec Allegedly Concealed 2016 Hack With $100K BTC ‘Bug Bounty’ Pay-Off
Turner Wright reports: Joseph Sullivan, a former Chief Security Officer at Uber, allegedly tried to cover up a 2016 hack of sensitive data by funneling a hush money payment of $100,000 in Bitcoin through a bug bounty program. The hackers had obtained the drivers’ license numbers of roughly 600,000 Uber drivers as well as private…
Data breach at Experian, 24 million South Africans’ personal information exposed
Sizwe Dlamini reports: Consumer, business and credit information services agency Experian has experienced a breach of data which has exposed personal information of as many as 24 million South Africans and 793,749 business entities to a suspected fraudster. Experian confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that the breach had been reported to law enforcement and…
Marriott faces London lawsuit over vast data breach
Kirstin Ridley reports: LONDON (Reuters) – Marriott International Inc, the world’s largest hotel operator, is facing a London class action brought by millions of former hotel guests demanding compensation after their personal data was hacked in one of the largest data breaches in history. Martin Bryant, founder of technology and media consultancy Big Revolution, is…
Hacker leaks data for U.S. gun exchange site on cybercrime forum
Lawrence Abrams reports: A hacker has released the databases of Utah-based gun exchange, hunting, and kratom sites for free on a cybercrime forum. On August 10th, a threat actor posted databases that they claim contain 195,000 user records for the utahgunexchange.com, 45,000 records for their video site, 15,000 records from the hunting site muleyfreak.com, and 24,000…
Jack Daniel’s Manufacturer Was Target of Apparent Ransomware Attack
Jordan Robertson reports: Brown-Forman Corp., a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages including Jack Daniel’s and Finlandia, said it was hit by a cyber-attack in which some information, including employee data, may have been impacted. The company, which is based in Louisville, Kentucky, said in a statement it was able to prevent its systems from being encrypted,…