Ethan Baron reports: Cybersecurity is big business in the Bay Area, with new firms popping up virtually every week to meet the global demand for data protection in a world teeming with sophisticated hackers. Now one of the region’s more established firms has been hacked, with customer data stolen, according to a company blog post…
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OneLogin: Breach Exposed Ability to Decrypt Data
Brian Krebs reports: OneLogin, an online service that lets users manage logins to sites and apps from a single platform, says it has suffered a security breach in which customer data was compromised, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data. Headquartered in San Francisco, OneLogin provides single sign-on and identity management for cloud-base applications. OneLogin…
The federal police were called after a Sydney startup was blackmailed with hacked customer data
Tony Yoo reports: A Sydney startup has had its customer data stolen with the hackers threatening to publish the information unless bitcoins are paid out. Customers of ticketing platform Qnect, which is widely used by the university sector for organising social events, this week received SMS messages stating that their personal data has been stolen…
ZA: Old Mutual targeted in data breach
Financial services company Old Mutual has notified its customers of a data breach, after it detected unauthorised entry to one of its systems which led to some personal customer information being accessed. The company said that personal information of a relatively small group of customers in South Africa was accessed including ‘customers’ name, telephone number…
AU: Camberwell High School becomes second target of major privacy breach in two weeks
Ebony Bowden reports: Police are investigating a second major privacy breach at a Melbourne high school which saw the personal information of families illegally accessed by a student. The breach at Camberwell High School follows a similar but unrelated incident at Blackburn High School two weeks ago where the personal information of families was illegally…
Russian Hackers Are Using Google’s Own Infrastructure to Hack Gmail Users
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Russian government hackers seem to have figured out that sometimes the best way to hack into people’s Gmail accounts is be to abuse Google’s own services. On Thursday, researchers exposed a massive Russian espionage and disinformation campaign using emails designed to trick users into giving up their passwords, a technique that’s known…