Reuters reports: Equifax Inc (EFX.N), a provider of consumer credit scores, on Thursday said it found another 2.4 million U.S. consumers hit by a data breach last year, bringing the total to 147.9 million. The company said the latest batch of consumers affected had their names and driver’s license information stolen, but noted less information…
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French news site L’Express exposed reader data online, failed to promptly secure it when notified
Zack Whittaker and Rayna Stamboliyska report on a data leak where it sounds like the researcher who uncovered the leak took more diligent steps to secure the data than the entity did. Here’s a bit from ZDNet’s report, but do read the whole thing. I’ve changed their headline, which emphasized GDPR, to my own perception…
NIS America Hit By Security Breach, Personal Data Leaked
Neil Bolt reports: NIS America has announced that their online stores suffered a major security breach within the last week. This has led to the leaking of personal data for multiple new accounts to the hackers responsible. The RPG-centric company notified customers via email and social media. The publisher has now taken the store down to prevent…
Porsche Japan customers data leaked
The Japanese arm of German automaker Porsche says more than 28,000 email addresses have been leaked via a hack. Porsche Japan says information at risk includes 23,151 email addresses belonging to customers who asked for product brochures via the internet between 2000 and 2009. Its officials suspect their customers’ names, postal addresses, phone numbers and…
In: City accountant hit in suspected ransomware attack
TOI reports: Jaipur: In what is suspected to be the first case of ransomware infecting a system in the state, a city-based charted accountant was hit by hackers who encrypted files on his computers and demanded money in Bitcoins to decrypt the files. They also threatened to corrupt the data if he failed to pay…
Computer hacker held four Edmonton companies ransom, police say
CBC News reports: An Edmonton man is facing fraud and extortion charges after several businesses had their computer networks hacked and data stolen, resulting in losses of $1.5 million. An Edmonton business reported to police that its IT system was hacked in July, police said in a release Thursday. […] A 37-year-old man is charged with 18 criminal…