There’s been a lot of speculation following the arrest of Conor Fitzpatrick (aka “Pompompurin”) once it began to really sink in for some people that law enforcement has both the RaidForums BreachForums databases. One development that has contributed to the anxiety some people may be feeling is that the Dutch police have sent out thousands…
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Fi: Hacked therapy centre’s ex-CEO gets 3-month suspended sentence
YLE reports: Helsinki District Court handed a three-month suspended sentence to the former CEO of a psychotherapy firm targeted in a major data breach. The court found the ex-CEO of Vastaamo, Ville Tapio, guilty of a data protection crime because he did not fulfil General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, in terms of the pseudonymisation and…
Real estate firm OrangeTee & Tie fined for data breach involving 250,000 customers and employees
CNA reports a follow-up to an attack by ALTDOS that was previously reported by DataBreaches: Real estate agency OrangeTee & Tie has been fined S$37,000 by Singapore’s privacy watchdog after the personal data of more than 250,000 customers and employees was compromised. Names, bank account numbers, property transaction amounts, as well as identity card numbers were…
Kodi Confirms Data Breach: 400K User Records and Private Messages Stolen
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: Open source media player software provider Kodi has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole the company’s MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages. What’s more, the unknown threat actors attempted to sell the data dump comprising 400,635 Kodi users on the now-defunct BreachForums cybercrime marketplace. Read more at The Hacker News.
‘Headlight Hackers’ Are Stealing Cars Via CAN Interference
Adrianna Nine reports: Car thieves have found a sophisticated new way to snatch vehicles off the streets, and it’s called “headlight hacking.” The method involves accessing a car’s Controller Area Network (CAN) bus, a system that allows multiple devices within a vehicle build to communicate with each other in real time. Ian Tabor, an automotive…
So then the law firm Uber gave sensitive driver data to for legal representation got hacked….
Mike Stevens reports: An unknown number of Uber drivers have been informed by a legal firm that represents Uber Technologies that sensitive data, including their identities and Social Security numbers, has been taken by cyberattackers. This data includes the drivers’ names. The world’s largest ride-sharing company has suffered its third data hack in the last half a…