Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A global law firm is notifying nearly 153,000 individuals of a hacking incident that compromised several client files. The files contained sensitive personal information and affects vision care patients who had been victims of a breach three years ago. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe on July 20 reported the data breach to…
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VirusTotal: We’re sorry someone fat-fingered and exposed 5,600 users
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: VirusTotal today issued a mea culpa, saying a blunder earlier this week by one of its staff exposed information belonging to 5,600 customers, including the email addresses of US Cyber Command, FBI, and NSA employees. The unintentional leak was due to the layer-eight problem; human error. On June 29, an employee accidentally uploaded…
Two more breaches involving email gaffes: one by a NZ hospital, one by Fortinet
First, we have this “human error” mistake with email to report today. Hamish McNeilly reports: An email containing the names of vulnerable children was mistakenly sent to other parents and guardians, prompting an apology from Te Whatu Ora Southern. Dozens of parents and guardians received the email on Tuesday from the Vera Haywood Centre, a…
Data breach exposes personal information of 4,000 Roblox developers
Jess Weatherbed reports: Sensitive information identifying thousands of Roblox creators has been exposed following a data breach impacting attendees at a conference for Roblox developers, which allegedly remained undisclosed by the company for at least two years. As reported by PC Gamer, the leak contains personal information from people who attended the Roblox Developer Conference between 2017-2020, including names, usernames, date of…
Double whammy? Estee Lauder Breached by Two Ransomware Groups?
Phil Muncaster reports: Estee Lauder has become the latest big name to suffer an apparently serious ransomware breach, after two groups claimed to have compromised the firm. The cosmetics giant was posted to the leak site of both the Alphv/BlackCat and Clop ransomware gangs, according to security researchers on Twitter. Read more at Infosecurity Magazine….
Microsoft to Offer Some Cybersecurity Tools Free After Suspected China Hack
Dustin Volz and Robert McMillan report: Microsoft said it plans to offer free some tools that can spot cyberattacks following last week’s disclosure of a major security breach linked to Chinese hackers that was undetectable for some customers. The decision to open up access to its back-end systems that log activity on the cloud came after Microsoft’s tiered…