Graham Cluley reports: Demant, the manufacturer of Oticon hearing aids, has said that it expects losses of up to 650 million kroner (approximately $95 million) following a cyber attack earlier this month. The company’s servers suffered what it described as a “critical incident” on September 3, disrupting the production and distribution of its products. Read…
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NYS Attorney General James Sues Dunkin’ Donuts For Glazing Over Cyberattacks Targeting Thousands
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a lawsuit against Dunkin’ Brands, Inc. — franchisor of Dunkin’ Donuts — for failing to protect thousands of customers targeted in a series of cyberattacks. The company failed to notify nearly 20,000 customers that their accounts had been compromised, even though their information and personal funds were in…
DoorDash confirms breach impacting 4.9 million
It was almost exactly one year ago that this site pointed readers to a report by Zack Whittaker that dozens of DoorDash customers were claiming that their accounts had been hacked. As Zack reported at the time, DoorDash denied any breach of their system. Fast-forward one year and Zack reports that DoorDash has confirmed it…
Polish data protection authority issues €645,000 fine to online retailer
Jessica Belton reports: Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) this week imposed a PLN 2.8 million (€645,000) fine on online retailer Morele.net for “insufficient organisational and technical safeguards”. The data breach affected approximately 2.2 million customers who purchased products through one of the group’s nine websites. Read more on IT Governance.
Vodafone customer account details ‘briefly exposed’ after software update
Tom Pullar-Strecker reports: Vodafone says customers were able to access other people’s account information through its MyVodafone app on Wednesday morning. Spokeswoman Meera Kaushik said the privacy breach followed a planned upgrade to the app at 7am, which resulted in an “unexpected caching issue”. Read more on Stuff.
Heyyo dating app leaked users’ personal data, photos, location, more
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Online dating app Heyyo has made the same mistake that thousands of companies have made before it — namely, it left a server exposed on the internet without a password. This leaky server, an Elasticsearch instance, exposed the personal details, images, location data, phone numbers, and dating preferences for nearly 72,000 users,…