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…
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B.C. privacy officials look into data breach involving bankrupt computer retailer
Sunny Dhillon reports: Privacy officials in B.C. and Ottawa are looking into a reported data breach involving former Canadian retailer NCIX, with millions of records – including customer names, addresses, phone numbers and payment information – said to have been made available through a Craigslist post. Travis Doering, who runs a small cybersecurity firm in…
UK: Arran Brewery blackmailed by hackers as Scottish beer firm becomes latest victim of sophisticated Ransomware attack
Jonathan Whitelaw reports: A Tiny Scots brewery has been blackmailed by cyber hackers as part of a sophisticated Ransomware attack. Bosses at The Arran Brewery were targeted by the online crooks before bringing in experts to beef up their security. And they say that the attack caused severe disruption to the business and the loss…
Credit reference agency Equifax fined for security breach
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued Equifax Ltd with a £500,000 fine for failing to protect the personal information of up to 15 million UK citizens during a cyber attack in 2017. The incident, which happened between 13 May and 30 July 2017 in the US, affected 146 million customers globally….
Update: Suspect Arrested for Huazhu Hotel’s Over USD50,000 User Data Theft
Xu Wei report: A hacker who disclosed nearly 500 million pieces of Chinese Huazhu Hotels Group’s user data, including bank accounts and identity cards, has been detained. The transaction that the suspect who tried to sell the data on the dark net has failed, the Shanghai-based hotel firm said on its website on Sept. 17. The person…
Hackers stole customer credit cards in Newegg data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach. Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer’s payments page which remained for more than a month between August 14 and September 18, Yonathan Klijnsma, a threat researcher at RiskIQ, told TechCrunch. The code siphoned off credit card…