Gareth Corfield reports: Users of software house Foxit’s free and paid-for products, including its popular PhantomPDF editor, may have fallen victim to a data breach – with stolen data including users’ website passwords. Foxit admitted to the breach earlier today, stating that “third parties” had gained access to its My Account user data. Read more…
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Bulgarian lender Banka DSK fined 1M leva for data breach
The Sofia Globe reports: Bulgaria’s commission for personal data protection said on August 28 that it had fined Banka DSK, the country’s second-largest lender by assets, one million leva (about 511 300 euro) for the “illegal disclosure” of the personal data of its customers. In total, the data of 33 492 customers from 23 270…
Hostinger Data Breach Affects Almost 14 Million Customers
Ionut Ilascu reports: Hosting provider Hostinger today announced that it reset the login passwords of 14 million of its customers following a recent security breach that enabled unauthorized access to a client database. The incident occurred on August 23 and a third party was able to access usernames, hashed passwords, emails, first names, and IP…
Hackers successfully breach tens of thousands of Australian banking accounts
Alex Chapman reports: Tens of thousands of Australians have had their personal information hacked by fraudsters. Details, including phone numbers, names, BSB and account details linked to PayID was breached in recent days. Read more on 7News.
Lyons Companies Breach Notice
Lyons Companies issued a breach notification press release on August 23. Let’s skip the PR and cut to the chase, shall we? What Happened? On March 12, 2019, Lyons learned of unusual activity in an employee email account. It turned out two employee email accounts were accessed without authorization. One email account was subject to unauthorized…
MY: Astro customer data and personal details leaked yet again
Vijandren reports: We’ll if you, just like the rest of us here are asking – wasn’t this last years news, well it isn’t. We have just confirmed that Astro’s customer data and customer personal details have been breached yet again. A notice which went up earlier today on Astro’s official site confirmed that its customers’…