Siddharth Shankar reports that HDFC Bank has denied any reports of a data leak or breach, despite the fact that data allegedly from them is being made freely available on a popular forum: One of the largest private sector banks in India, HDFC Bank, has allegedly fallen victim to a data breach. A user on…
Category: Hack
Alleged security breach leaves millions of dollars missing from Flutterwave accounts
Tage Kene-Okafor reports: Last month, Flutterwave, Africa’s largest startup by private valuation, was involved in a hack that resulted in over ₦2.9 billion (~$4.2 million) missing from its accounts, according to local tech publication Techpoint Africa. According to the documents seen by the publication and reviewed by TechCrunch, unknown actors transferred the funds across 28 accounts…
Hacker stole bank account, Social Security numbers, and health plan info of Colorado school district employees
Updated March 15: This incident was reported to HHS on March 3 as affecting 35,068 health plan members, so it likely included former employees as well as current ones. DPS’s notice can be found on their website. Nate Lynn reports: Personal information belonging to some 15,000 Denver Public Schools (DPS) employees was stolen in what…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
ES: Stormous claims attack on Zurcal The Zurcal group, which belongs to the energy saving and efficiency sector, has been named by Stormous Ransomware in its Telegram channel. The attack was posted on February 24 with images showing invoices and plans. Stormous gave the victim one week to respond. In a subsequent post, Stormous added…
Hackers steal gun owners’ data from firearm auction website
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Hackers breached a website that allows people to buy and sell guns, exposing the identities of its users, TechCrunch has learned. The breach exposed reams of sensitive personal data for more than 550,000 users, including customers’ full names, home addresses, email addresses, plaintext passwords and telephone numbers. Also, the stolen data allegedly…
UK: WHSmith targeted by hackers in cyber attack as company data at risk
Natalie Rees reports: High street retailer WHSmith has reported it has been the target of a cyber attack with hackers accessing company data. The company said information regarding current and former employees had also been accessed by hackers during the security breach. Bosses of the established retailer said the situation does not impact its trading…