Andrei Zakharov reports: Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users’ accounts. The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were attempting to sell, although there are reasons to be sceptical about that figure. Facebook said…
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Radisson Rewards confirms data breach
Mark Caswell reports: Radisson Hotel Group has confirmed that it has suffered a data breach on affecting “a small percentage of our Radisson Rewards members”. Business Traveller was alerted to the incident by one of our readers, who had received an email from Radisson confirming that his details had been compromised. Radisson says that it…
Massive data leak affecting Arik Air customers; company slow to respond: Paine
Oladeinde Olawoyin reports: Millions of customers flying Nigeria’s foremost airline, Arik Air, may have had their data leaked as details emerged on Wednesday that the airline’s data were found in exposed and vulnerable Amazon S3 buckets. According to Justin Paine, Head of Trust & Safety at Cloudflare, there is a bucket containing a large number…
U.S. charges Chinese spies and their recruited hackers in conspiracy to steal trade secrets
Ellen Nakashima reports: The Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed charges against 10 Chinese spies, hackers and others accused of conspiring to steal sensitive commercial airline and other secrets from U.S. and European companies. The indictment marks the third time since September that the United States has brought charges against Chinese intelligence officers and their recruits…
Eurostar forces all customers to reset passwords after data breach
Natasha Bernal reports: Eurostar has forced all of its customers to reset their passwords after detecting an “unauthorised attempt” to hack into its systems and access their accounts. Customers reported receiving an email on Tuesday stating that the company had identified an attempt to access eurostar.com accounts using users’ email and passwords between the 15 and 19…
9 Months after $530 Million Hack, Crypto Exchange Coincheck is Accepting New Users
CCN reports: Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, the victim of the largest theft in the crypto industry’s history, has reopened new user registrations and limited trading services. The Tokyo-based cryptocurrency trading platform, which lost a record $530 million in NEM tokens (XEM) after an attacker breached its hot wallet in January, made the announcement on Tuesday,…