Euractiv and Reuters report: Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the country’s leading opposition party, has been hit by a major cyberattack and has taken parts of its IT-infrastructure off the grid as a precautionary measure, authorities said on Saturday (1 June). “There was a serious cyber attack on the CDU network,” Germany’s Interior Ministry said…
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Snowflake Warns: Targeted Credential Theft Campaign Hits Cloud Customers
The Hacker News reports: Cloud computing and analytics company Snowflake said a “limited number” of its customers have been singled out as part of a targeted campaign. “We have not identified evidence suggesting this activity was caused by a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or breach of Snowflake’s platform,” the company said in a joint statement along with CrowdStrike and…
Snowflake data breach claims spark war of words over culpability; researchers may have been trolled
Solomon Klappholz reports: Snowflake has pinned the blame on a series of high-profile data breaches in recent days on customers failing to adequately secure production environments by using two-factor authentication. In a statement on 2 June 2024, Snowflake CISO Brad Jones pushed back on claims that major data breaches involving Ticketmaster and Santander were caused by a vulnerability or misconfiguration in Snowflake’s platform. […] Cyber crime intelligence…
Santander customers’ private data put up for sale for $2m by hackers
The Guardian reports: Hackers are attempting to sell confidential information including the bank and credit card numbers of millions of Santander customers to the highest bidder. ShinyHunters posted an advert on a hacker forum for the data, which it says also includes staff HR details, with an asking price of $2m (£1.6m). It is the…
Hacked? Ticketmaster’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week just got worse
On May 23, the U.S. Department of Justice, joined by 29 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia, sued Live Nation Entertainment and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ticketmaster, for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. In his prepared remarks, Attorney General Garland said In recent years, Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s exorbitant fees and technological failures have been criticized…
Sav-Rx notifies 2.8 million patients of October 2023 data breach
A&A Services, which does business as Sav-Rx, is notifying 2,812,336 patients of a hacking incident in October 2023. According to its submissions to the California and Maine attorneys general, Sav-Rx detected an interruption to their network on October 8, 2023. By the next day, their IT systems were restored and prescriptions were shipped on time…