Brian Krebs reports: mSpy, the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on the mobile devices of their kids and partners, has leaked millions of sensitive records online, including passwords, call logs, text messages, contacts, notes and location data secretly collected from phones running the stealthy…
Category: Business Sector
Brazilian credit bureau investigates potential data leak
Rogerio Jelmayer reports: Brazilian credit bureau Boa Vista SCPC is investigating a possible leak of millions of items of personal data. A group of hackers called Fatal Error claimed it accessed the database of the company, which has more than 350mn personal data about its customers, according a report by local daily Folha de S….
C&A suffers data leak in Brazil
Angelica Mari reports: The Brazilian operation of international fashion retail clothing chain C&A has confirmed a cyberattack to its gift card platform. Data from customers who purchased gift cards was leaked such as ID numbers and email addresses, in addition to information including the amount loaded into the cards, order number and data of purchase….
ZA: Hackers did not compromise our servers – Department of Labour
My Broadband reports: The Department of Labour has issued a statement confirming there was a recent attempted cyberattack on its website. The attack took place over the weekend, and the department’s IT unit confirmed it was a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack – aimed at one of the department’s public-facing servers. Read more on…
Air Canada confirms mobile app data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: Air Canada has confirmed a data breach on its mobile app, which the airline said may affect 20,000 people — or 1 percent — of its 1.7 million app users. The company said it had “detected unusual log-in behavior” occurring between August 22-24. According to an email to customers, attackers may have…
Second Circuit Stands By Medidata “Spoofing” Decision
From Hunton Andrews Kurth: As reported on Hunton’s Insurance Recovery blog, the Second Circuit has rejected Chubb subsidiary Federal Ins. Co.’s request for reconsideration of the court’s July 6, 2018, decision, confirming that the insurer must cover Medidata’s $4.8 million loss under its computer fraud insurance policy. In July, the court determined that the loss resulted…