Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Hackers breached a website that allows people to buy and sell guns, exposing the identities of its users, TechCrunch has learned. The breach exposed reams of sensitive personal data for more than 550,000 users, including customers’ full names, home addresses, email addresses, plaintext passwords and telephone numbers. Also, the stolen data allegedly…
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UK: WHSmith targeted by hackers in cyber attack as company data at risk
Natalie Rees reports: High street retailer WHSmith has reported it has been the target of a cyber attack with hackers accessing company data. The company said information regarding current and former employees had also been accessed by hackers during the security breach. Bosses of the established retailer said the situation does not impact its trading…
Forget the spy balloon. China-linked hackers collect far more information, report finds.
Larry Mayer reports: Even as the Chinese spy balloon floated across the U.S., China-linked hackers were gathering far more information by breaking into computer networks in America and around the world, according to a new report by a leading cybersecurity firm. CrowdStrike says in its annual global threat report that it observed China-linked cyberespionage groups targeting 39 industries on…
LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken
Dan Goodin reports: Already smarting from a breach that put partially encrypted login data into a threat actor’s hands, LastPass on Monday said that the same attacker hacked an employee’s home computer and obtained a decrypted vault available to only a handful of company developers. Although an initial intrusion into LastPass ended on August 12,…
553 days from discovery to notification? DataBreaches asked Dental Health Management Solutions why.
Dental Health Management Solutions (“DHMS”) in Texas describes their services on LinkedIn as providing comprehensive dental services to both the government, public and private customers since 2003. We specialize in Military Readiness for mobile and portable dentistry nationwide and in the U.S territories. We also provide dental services to Nursing Homes, Assisted Living facilities, and…
In updated disclosure, News Corp says state hackers were on its network for two years
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Mass media and publishing giant News Corporation (News Corp) says that attackers behind a breach disclosed in 2022 first gained access to its systems two years before, in February 2020. This was revealed in data breach notification letters sent to employees affected by the data breach, who had some of their personal and health information…