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…
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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…
UK: Newsquest websites compromised by major security breach
UKNIP247 reports: Hundred of thousands of website users trying to access local news have been effected (sic) by a virus that has been injected into a Newsquest sever we can reveal. Web users trying to access any of the Newquest titles are having their phone or web site browser hijacked greeting them with a thank…
Dow Jones Risk Screening Watchlist Exposed Publicly in a Major Data Breach
Bob Diachenko reports: On Feb 22 2019, I found a copy of the Dow Jones Watchlist dataset, sitting on a public Elasticsearch cluster 4.4GB in size and available for public access to anyone who knew where to look (hint: any public IoT search engine, such as BinaryEdge). “Used by eight of the world’s ten largest,…
Axa staff sentenced for data theft in 2015 “Wolf of Manchester” case
Sian Barton reports: Four people have been sentenced for their part in a scam which saw 100 pieces of data a week stolen from Axa Insurance between July and December in 2015. The City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED), which worked closely with Axa during the investigation, discovered that between 15 July…