Jessi Turnure reports: Hackers are blocking companies in Conway from files on their computers and won’t give them back until they pay a ransom. Some businesses are now out thousands of dollars with little to show for it. “We were a little scared because we don’t have control over that,” said the owner of Fixed…
Category: Business Sector
DoorDash customers say their accounts have been hacked
Zack Whittaker reports: Food delivery startup DoorDash has received dozens of complaints from customers who say their accounts have been hacked. Dozens of people have tweeted at @DoorDash with complaints that their accounts had been improperly accessed and had fraudulent food deliveries charged to their account. In many cases, the hackers changed their email addresses…
Security researcher fined for hacking hotel Wi-Fi and putting passwords on the internet
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Singapore authorities have fined a Chinese security researcher with SGD$5,000 (USD$3,600) for hacking into a local hotel’s Wi-Fi system without authorization and then publishing a blog post about it, revealing passwords for the hotel’s internal network. The incident took place at the end of August, this year, when Zheng Dutao, 23, of…
NewsNow suffers security breach – passwords should be considered compromised
Graham Cluley reports: Online news aggregation service NewsNow has admitted that it has suffered a security breach. I could find no mention of the data breach on NewsNow’s website or Twitter account (the last news it shares on its Twitter account announces the 2017 engagement of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle, so perhaps they don’t…
Cash, hard drive, data stolen from DLF1 office, cops suspect insider
HT reports: Burglars broke into the office of a private consultancy company in DLF Phase 1 and allegedly decamped with Rs 4.5 lakh cash, $2,000, silver idols, two Mont Blanc collectible pens, four hard drives, company data, several personal documents and digital signatures of company staffers, police said Thursday. According to police, the incident could…
Cyber-attack at fashion website SheIn.com hits 6.4m customers
Jessica Haworth reports: Retail website SheIn.com has notified customers of a serious data breach after malicious hackers stole the details of 6.42 million people. The ‘affordable fashion’ site, which ships worldwide, was made aware of the cyber-attack on August 22, though it is believed to have started in June. During an investigation, the company’s servers…