Mark Wyciślik-Wilson reports: Hungarian airline Wizz Air has emailed millions of customers informing them that their passwords have been reset. While the company is at pains to stress that it has not been the victim of hacking, nor is any personal information at risk, the email took many customers by surprise and raised concerns about…
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Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project and more
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have breached SyTech, a contractor for FSB, Russia’s national intelligence service, from where they stole information about internal projects the company was working on behalf of the agency — including one for deanonymizing Tor traffic. The breach took place last weekend, on July 13, when a group of hackers going by…
Equifax to Pay Around $700 Million to Resolve Data-Breach Probes
AnnaMaria Andriotis reports: Equifax is nearing a deal to settle a slew of state and federal investigations into a 2017 data breach that exposed nearly 150 million Americans’ Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information. Under the agreement, the credit-reporting firm would pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission, the…
Hackers Publish List of Phished Discord Credentials
Joseph Cox reports: Earlier this week a group of hackers published a list of email addresses and passwords they say they phished from users of gaming chat platform Discord. The list is small, totalling in at only around 2,500 logins, but the news still acts as a reminder that Discord users need to remain vigilant…
QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack
Brian Krebs writes: Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access their accounting data for the past three days. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.
Personal data of users on 1111 job bank leaked on overseas forum
Liu Chien-pang and Ko Lin report: Taiwan job bank 1111 confirmed Friday that the personal data of its online members was hacked and leaked to a foreign-based hacker forum, and the case is now being investigated by local authorities. Henry Ho (何啟聖), vice president of 1111 job bank, said the scope of the personal data…