David Shephardson reports: Marriott International Inc Chief Executive Arne Sorenson apologized on Thursday before a U.S. Senate panel for a massive data breach involving up to 383 million guests in its Starwood hotels reservation system and vowed to protect against future attacks. […] Committee Chairman Rob Portman noted that Starwood said it had discovered malware…
Category: Business Sector
Global Robotic Process Automation Company’s Event App Exposed Attendees Info
In today’s “FFS Moment,” Bob Diachenko reports: On March 1st 2019, I discovered another non password protected MongoDB that appeared to contain data related to San Jose, California based Automation Anywhere. They are the developers of robotic process automation software but this backup contained an application created specifically for Automation Anywhere’s premier customer event called…
Sonic Corp. sued for $5 million over 2017 data breach
Dale Denwalt reports an update to a breach first reported by Brian Krebs in 2017. A 2017 data breach at Sonic restaurants caused financial institutions to lose revenue, a new lawsuit claims. American Airlines Federal Credit Union claims in its lawsuit filed Monday that Sonic failed to protect its point of sale systems or update…
Report – Dalil Data Breach: 5+ Million Users’ Data Exposed by Unsecured App
VPNMentor reports: Dalil is the biggest phone directory in Saudi Arabia. With more than 5 million downloads, Dalil is the 13th most popular communications app in the Kingdom. For context, this is where Viber and Telegram rank in the US. 96% of its users are in Saudi Arabia; the remainder are in Egypt and other…
Marriott breach has already cost tens of million$$
Marriott data security breach costs the company $28M so far. Insurance covered $25M of it, so their net payment so far is $3M. But how much more will they have to spend? Stay tuned…
ShareThis breach notification
In my inbox last night: Hello, At ShareThis, protecting the security of the information in our possession is a responsibility we take very seriously. We write to notify you of a data security incident that may have exposed some of your personal information. This notice explains the incident and steps ShareThis has undertaken to address…