Mark Holden of Website Planet reports on a big Oops! involving Prestige Software in Spain and a misconfigured AWS bucket: Courtesy of our security team at Website Planet, we can reveal that a hotel reservation platform has been exposing highly sensitive data from millions of hotel guests worldwide, dating as far back as 2013 and including…
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It: Gaiba municipality central server hacked
The following is a Google translation: The Municipality of Gaiba informs all interested parties (residents and non-residents) that on the night of 6.11.2020 it was the subject of a cyber attack that violated the personal data on the central server. The Authority has promptly activated and is proceeding to notify the data breach to the…
Compal, the second-largest laptop manufacturer in the world, hit by ransomware
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Compal, a Taiwanese electronics company that builds laptops for some of the world’s largest computer brands, suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend. Responsible for the breach is believed to be the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang, according to a screenshot of the ransom note shared by Compal employees with Yahoo Taiwan reporters. Read…
Val-de-Marne: Alfortville town hall paralyzed by a computer attack
archyde reports: The municipal computers were suddenly paralyzed Wednesday evening: “a general plantade”, in the words of the mayor PS of Alfortville (Val-de-Marne), Luc Carvounas. Its town hall was the target of a cyber attack by “ransomware”, that is to say that the hackers managed to enter the computer system and to exfiltrate, before encrypting…
Hackers Asked Gaming Giant CAPCOM to Pay an $11 Million in Bitcoin Ransom
Ali Raza reports: Ransomware hackers reportedly breached the servers of gaming giant CAPCOM. The hackers have come out to request 11 million in Bitcoin from the Resident Evil creator or risk losing their data to the public. The ransomware attack affected access to certain systems such as file and email servers, as it encrypted 1TB…
Ca: 2 hard drives and documents with personal health info left behind during MLHU move
CTV reports: The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is defending itself over a privacy breach earlier this year when papers and two computer hard drives containing personal information and personal health information were left behind at its former headquarters on King Street. It happened during the move to its new location inside Citi Plaza in the…