Helen Knapman reports: AIRBNB users are complaining that their accounts have been “hacked” with some finding holidays unknowingly booked in their name costing thousands of pounds. Others say genuine reservations made on the booking site have been cancelled leaving them with nowhere to stay. Read more on The Sun. AirBNB had not responded to the…
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A hacker is wiping Git repositories and asking for a ransom
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hundreds of developers have had had Git source code repositories wiped and replaced with a ransom demand. The attacks started earlier today, appear to be coordinated across Git hosting services (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab), and it is still unclear how they are happening. What it is known is that the hacker removes all…
$100-million class action lawsuit filed in Calgary over Marriott Hotels data breach
Kevin Martin reports: The massive data hack of guest information from the Marriott hotel empire has triggered a $100-million class action lawsuit in Calgary. A statement of claim filed in Calgary Court of Queen’s Bench says the data breach in which hackers accessed records on as many as 500 million hotel guests was due to…
Energy companies under attack
Zack Whittaker reports: A denial-of-service attack launched against an energy company providing power in several western U.S. states was enough to report “interruptions of electrical system operations” to the government’s energy authority. The “cyber event” lasted almost 10 hours on March 5, according to an electric emergency and disturbance report filed with the Department of…
PH: Hackers breach database of UNIFAST
Mario Casayuran reports: The database of the Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education (UNIFAST) has been breached by hackers. […] The data breach committed last March exposed the personal data of more than one million Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) applicants, Gatchalian said. He said the TES database containing the private data of 1,130,899…