TEISS reports: Merseyside Police have arrested, and subsequently released under investigation, a fifteen-year-old boy under the suspicion of hacking into a number of PayPal accounts in the UK earlier this year. Aside from arresting and releasing the fifteen-year-old boy under investigation, Merseyside Police’s Cyber Dependent Crime Unit, along with the Matrix, carried out a search…
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38 Japan firms’ authentication data stolen amid surge in teleworkers
Kyodo News reports: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co. and 36 other Japanese companies had authentication information to access their virtual private networks stolen and leaked by hackers this summer, an information security expert said Tuesday. VPN usage has increased as companies encourage employees to work from home due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The…
CO: Mental Health Partners discloses email hack potentially compromised employee and patient data
Mental Health Partners (also known as “Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc.) issued a press release this week about an employee email account compromise discovered in late March. An investigation revealed that the personal information of some MHP clients and current and former employees may have been accessed or taken during the incident. The…
Free photos, graphics site Freepik discloses data breach impacting 8.3m users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Freepik, a website dedicated to providing access to high-quality free photos and design graphics, has disclosed today a major security breach. The company made it official after users started grumbling on social media this week about receiving shady-looking breach notification emails in their inboxes. Read more on ZDNet.
“Blue Leaks” data breach also affected SD COVID-19 patients
Angela Kennecke reports: The so called “BlueLeaks” data breach, which compromised the information of hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers across the nation in June, has a whole new twist tonight that involves South Dakota and people who tested positive for COVID-19. KELOLAND Investigates has obtained a letter sent by the director of the…
Turkey: KVKK announces Kariyer.net data breach
OneTrust DataGuidance reports: The Turkish data protection authority (‘KVKK’) announced, on 18 August 2020, a data breach suffered by Kariyer.net Elektronik Yayıncılık ve İletişim Hiz. Inc. In particular, the KVKK highlighted that the breach was detected by a consultant serving as a supplier to Kariyer.net on 12 August 2020 and was communicated to an employee of Kariyer.net informing them that a file…