Waqas writes: In a strange incident, an Internet bot has been blamed for hacking 20 million MTN Irancell users, one of the most popular and second largest mobile phone operator in Iran. Fars news agency reported the incident took place on Telegram message app when a @MTNProBot appeared on the service allowing anyone to insert user’s phone number and collect their…
Category: Business Sector
DID Electrical says more than 300 people have card details stolen after online security breach
Keeley Ryan reports: An electrical goods retailer has been forced to advise more than 300 of its customers to cancel their credit cards after an online security breach. DID Electrical said it was told on Monday that its website – DID.ie – had been subjected to a sophisticated cybercrime, resulting in a data security breach….
Thomson Reuters World-Check Terrorist Database, Open For The World To View
Yesterday, I linked to a report about yet another misconfigured database. This was one leaking more sensitive information, as the due diligence data were from Thomson Reuters’ World-Check service, although the 2014 database that was exposed on the internet belonged to neither of those entities. The due diligence aspect is that banks and other institutions are…
AU: TeleChoice forced to compensate customers over 2014 data breach
Sometimes by the time a case is resolved, I’ve forgotten what it was. I’m old, I forget. Thankfully, I can check the archives of this site to see if I had covered it before. Happily for me, I had covered this one, which involved TeleChoice somewhat stunningly leaving consumers’ personal information in a shipping container…
Euro 2016 app leaking private user data
Sam Pudwell reports: I’ve been trying not to think about Euro 2016 after England’s whimpering exit on Monday night, but new research from mobile security and management firm Wandera has grabbed my attention. According to analysis of data traffic patterns from enterprise mobile devices, the official UEFA Euro 2016 Fan Guide App is leaking user’s personal information…
Hackers Track HashOcean Mining Company
The latest information from a group which claims to be ethical hackers shows efforts to trace the owners and identify the operation of the defunct HashOcean Bitcoin mining company, which suddenly disappeared with an estimated millions of dollars worth of the digital currency as investment from miner, is ongoing. “We are so close and we have been…