SSN reports: A technology outage that impacted rail operations for the Norfolk Southern Corporation late Friday evening on September 29, have been ruled not a cyber-attack following an update from the company on Saturday. That Friday evening, Norfolk Southern’s data center experienced an outage that impacted rail operations that included their dispatching system, train movements,…
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Consumers’ Data Breach Suit Against T-Mobile Sent to Arbitrator
Christopher Brown reports: Two customers’ allegations that T-Mobile failed to protect their personal information in a data breach and exposed information allowing their Coinbase cryptocurrency account to be hacked will be heard by an arbitrator. The arbitration agreement between T-Mobile and plaintiffs Jorge and Marcos Rodriguez clearly delegated threshold questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator,…
More than 3.8 billion records exposed in DarkBeam data leak
Olivia Powell reports: More than 3.8 billion records have been exposed after digital protection firm DarkBeam left an interface containing the exposed records unprotected. The leak was discovered on September 18 by CEO of cyber security news site SecurityDiscovery, Bob Diachenko, who alerted DarkBeam to the leak. The digital protection firm immediately addressed the vulnerability…
Swan Retail cyber attack woes continue
Sabina Weston reports: More than six weeks after hackers caused “significant disruption” to Swan Retail’s inventory management, order fulfilment and accounting systems, fashion retailers told Drapers the issues have still not been resolved. Sandersons Boutique owner and co-founder Mark Dransfield said the cyber attack on Swan Retail, which occurred on 13 August, “has hugely affected” the…
Nansen Warns Of Potential Phishing Attacks Following Vendor Security Incident Exposing Customer Data
Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright reports: Crypto analytics platform Nansen has revealed that a bad actor accessed its admin system to provision customer accounts. On Sept. 20, a security breach by one of Nansen’s third-party vendors led to compromised customer access, underscoring the ever-present digital risk, particularly in the continually evolving arena of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency….
Hackers put over 2 million Pakistanis’ private data for sale after restaurant software breach
Daily Pakistan reports: More than 2 million Pakistani citizens are facing risk of data leak as hackers got access to a private company-made database used by hundreds of restaurants. The incident affected customers who gave their private data to restaurants for a treasure trove of personal information like credit cards, addresses and other bank details….