Tony Redmond reports: The danger of making mistakes when changing cloud systems that run at massive scale was demonstrated on Thursday evening (August 3) when the Office 365 Admin Center suddenly started to reveal usage data belonging to other tenants. Reports flooded in from administrators who noticed that the reported email and SharePoint usage for…
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“HBO is Falling” leak site disappears?
So after grabbing headlines with their announcement that they had hacked HBO, “Mr. Smith” and those behind the attack haven’t responded to follow-up inquiries from this site and the leak site they had created appears to be down. Claiming to have acquired 1.5 T of HBO data and property, the hackers claimed to have acquired…
Irish commuters warned that popular parking service provider customers’ data could have been accessed during service outage
John Hand reports: Irish commuters have been warned that a company which allows people book and pay for parking by text, app and online is investigating whether their data has been breached after a service outage. Mr Parker, which functions at 300 Luas and Irish Rail car parks, informed customers this evening that some sensitive…
CNIL Fines Rental Car Company for Data Security Failure Attributable to Third-Party Service Provider
Hunton & Williams explain: On July 27, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) imposed a fine of €40,000 on a French affiliate of the rental car company, The Hertz Corporation, for failure to ensure the security of website users’ personal data. On October 15, 2016, the CNIL was informed of the existence of a…
Hackers Leak Data From Mandiant Security Researcher in Operation #LeakTheAnalyst
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Earlier today, a hacker group named 31337 Hackers has leaked personal details and files belonging to a security researcher working for Mandiant, FireEye’s breach investigation unit. The leak came to light today after hackers posted a message on PasteBin. Two download links for the stolen data were included. The password-protected archives contained…
HBO hacked: Hackers threaten to leak Game of Thrones (UPDATED)
Update: I made e-mail contact with the hackers earlier today. This really doesn’t seem to be the work of TheDarkOverlord at all. One of the hackers, who identified himself as “Mr. Smith” to me claims that they have “gathered most imporatnt files and films & scripts and so on.” (sic), and that they have ”…