On October 31, 2020, Eatigo reported a data breach of customer data and that the data had been put up for sale on a popular forum. The Personal Data Protection Commission investigated and found that: the personal data for sale on the online forum did not match any current databases in use by the Organisation…
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AT&T Notifying some wireless customers of vendor incident
AT&T has been notifying some wireless customers of an incident involving an unnamed vendor. In a notice sent to a customer who shared it with DataBreaches, AT&T wrote: AT&T’s commitment to customer privacy and data security is a top priority. We recently determined that an unauthorized person breached a vendor’s system and gained access to…
ANOTHER Acer Data Breach? Hacker Claims to Sell 160GB Trove of Stolen Data
Waqas reports: Acer Inc., a major global technology company based in Taiwan, is facing a potential data breach from a hacker going by the alias “Kernelware.” The hacker is claiming responsibility for a major data breach at Acer Inc., a leading multinational company based in Taiwan that designs and sells hardware and electronics products. According to…
Israel publicly blames Iran for cyberattack on major university last month
Times of Israel reports: The Israel National Cyber Directorate announced Tuesday that a group affiliated with Iranian intelligence was behind an internet attack last month on the Technion, a top Israeli research and education institute. In a statement, the directorate said an investigation found the attack was carried out by a group known as MuddyWater,…
HDFC Bank Data Breach Exposed on Internet? Hacker Leaks Sensitive Information
Siddharth Shankar reports that HDFC Bank has denied any reports of a data leak or breach, despite the fact that data allegedly from them is being made freely available on a popular forum: One of the largest private sector banks in India, HDFC Bank, has allegedly fallen victim to a data breach. A user on…
Alleged security breach leaves millions of dollars missing from Flutterwave accounts
Tage Kene-Okafor reports: Last month, Flutterwave, Africa’s largest startup by private valuation, was involved in a hack that resulted in over ₦2.9 billion (~$4.2 million) missing from its accounts, according to local tech publication Techpoint Africa. According to the documents seen by the publication and reviewed by TechCrunch, unknown actors transferred the funds across 28 accounts…