A disgruntled ex-employee has been jailed after he admitted carrying out cyber attacks against Jet2 which took down their computer systems for more than 12 hours. NCA investigators proved that 27-year-old Scott Burns from Morley, Leeds, illegally accessed a domain operated by Dart Group and their subsidiary, Jet2, on two separate occasions in January 2018….
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An Open Letter from Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens to Our Customers
December 19, 2019 NOTICE OF DATA BREACH Dear Wawa Customers, At Wawa, the people who come through our doors every day are not just customers, you are our friends and neighbors, and nothing is more important than honoring and protecting your trust. Today, I am very sorry to share with you that Wawa has experienced…
A Data Leak Exposed The Personal Information Of Over 3,000 Ring Users
Caroline Haskins reports: The log-in credentials for 3,672 Ring camera owners were compromised this week, exposing log-in emails, passwords, time zones, and the names people give to specific Ring cameras, which are often the same as camera locations, such as “bedroom” or “front door.” Using the log-in email and password, an intruder could access a…
SonyLIV Fixes leaky Elasticsearch in record time
Once again, a service owned and control by a division of official Sony Entertainment has slipped up. This time, their error exposed a elasticsearch server leaking log entries that feed into a third-party tool. Sony is no stranger when it comes to reports of poor infosecurity and hacking incidents, but it is not often we…
China Citizen Watch (Finally) Secures 150TB of Leaking Data
China Citizen Watch, the official Chinese division of the Japanese watch giant Citizen, and Bulova Watch Company (a Citizen brand in the U.S.) have both been affected because China Citizen Watch or its hosting company left an unsecured RSYNC server online with more than 150TB of files. Cursory skimming of the files, necessitated by Citizen…
Ca: Manitoba insurance company struck by ransomware attack
Canadian Press reports: A Manitoba-based insurance and financial brokerage that has clients across the Prairies has been hit by a ransomware attack that it hadn’t publicly disclosed. Andrew Agencies, based in Virden, appears on a list of targets published online this week by an international cybercriminal gang. Read more on CHVN.