Fabian Koh reports: Local authorities are investigating a data breach at home-grown e-commerce cashback platform ShopBack, after the firm made public an incident involving unauthorised access to customers’ personal data. Read more on The Straits Times. In other news, Clara Chong reports: Singapore-based hospitality start-up RedDoorz acknowledged on Saturday (Sept 26) that one of its…
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NEET, JEE aspirants’ data available on public domain, Bhopal medical student seeks CBI probe
Parvathi Benu reports: In a complaint to the Central Bureau of Investigation, a medical student from Bhopal has accused 17 websites of leaking personal information of students who appeared for the Joint Entrance Examination and the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) (Undergraduate and Postgraduate). According to the complaint filed by Vivek Pandey, these websites…
Legal action underway over University of Cumbria data breach
Cumbria Crack reports: Students, staff and partners of universities across the UK who may have had their personal details leaked online are preparing to take legal action against the organisations amidst concerns that more should have been done to protect their data. Confidential information including names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses…
4 Hackers Arrested in Poland in Nation-Wide Action Against Cybercrime
Today, the Polish authorities are announcing the arrest of 4 suspected hackers as part of a coordinated strike against cybercrime. Those arrested are believed to be among the most active cybercriminals in the country. This operation was carried out by the Polish Police Centre Bureau of Investigation (Centralne Biuro Śledecze Policji) under the supervision of…
More drama in the world of ransomware? Was Vard Group victimized twice?
Now what happened here? The Sodinokibi (“REvil”) ransomware operators have a new post that seems to claim that one of their victims was defrauded by a recovery company to the tune of $5.5 million. Vard Group, a Norwegian unit of shipbuilder Fincantieri SpA, was attacked in June 2020. But what happened next? It sounds like the…
Shopify says two ‘rogue’ employees involved in data breach to obtain customer records
The Canadian Press reports: Shopify Inc. is working with the FBI after two “rogue members” of its support team engaged in a scheme to illegitimately obtain customer transactional records of some merchants. The Ottawa-based tech firm says it terminated the employees’ access to its network and referred the data breach to law enforcement. Read more…