Rachel England reports: Facebook is coughing up for another fine. This time the social network is handing over CAD$9 million (US$6.5 million / £5.3 million) to Canada as part of a settlement over the way it handled users’ personal information between August 2012 and June 2018. According to Canada’s independent Competition Bureau, Facebook “made false or misleading claims…
Category: Business Sector
EasyJet hacked: data breach affects 9 million customers
Lawrence Abrams reports: EasyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has disclosed that they were hacked and that the email addresses and travel information for 9 million customers were exposed. For some of these customers, credit card details were also accessed by the attackers. In a data breach notification disclosed today, EasyJet states that they have suffered…
Japan suspects missile data leak in Mitsubishi cyberattack
Mari Yamaguchi of AP reports: Japan is investigating a possible leak of data including details of a prototype missile in a massive cyberattack earlier this year on Mitsubishi Electric Corp., officials said Wednesday. The suspected leak involves sensitive information about a prototype of a cutting-edge high speed gliding missile intended for deployment for the defense…
Covve revealed as source of data breach impacting 23m individuals
Adam Bannister reports: Covve, the popular address book app, has been identified as the source of a data breach that exposed the details of nearly 23 million individuals. Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned?, tweeted on Saturday (May 16) that the app had been pinpointed as the source of a publicly accessible database that he had been…
RU: Data of 9 million customers of the Russian courier service leaked, but whose leak is it?
E Hacking News reports: Data belonging to nine million customers of the CDEC Express transportation service was put up for sale on the Web for 70 thousand rubles ($950). This is the largest leak of personal data in Russian delivery services […] The CDEC claims that there was no data leak from the company. As…
UK: Over 190 Law Firms Affected by Advanced Data Leak That Exposed Over 10,000 Legal Documents
Alicia Hope: A leading UK software company exposed personal information belonging to over 190 law firms through an unsecured online database. TurgenSec security firm discovered the breach but could not immediately identify the owner of the online database and therefore contacted the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Following the Responsible Disclosure Policy, the firm contacted…