Emma Crabtree reports: The Chancellor’s bin bags were placed outside his private apartment and torn open by foxes, leaving the documents open in public. Multiple news sources have since criticised the German leader for using such a careless disposal method. Read more at Express. The documents were unshredded and just bagged and binned, it seems.
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Growing risk to Indonesian citizens’ privacy as breaches and leaks appear on marketplaces
On July 22, DataBreaches reported on some recent breaches affecting Thai citizens and residents. In researching that post, DataBreaches was struck by the number of listings or offerings of data from ASEAN countries. In this post, DataBreaches provides a partial listing of some recent leaks or breaches affecting Indonesian citizens and residents. In general, the…
Responsible disclosure: DIVD describes a “long and windy road” notifying a Chinese firm
Some of you will recall that on a few occasions, DataBreaches has collaborated with Dutch researcher Jelle Ursem (aka @SchizoDuckie) to report on entities in the medical sector who were leaking their login credentials in GitHub repositories (see “No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking” and “Good Luck Explaining to HHS Why Your PHI is…
Israeli company Candiru allegedly behind cyberattacks against journalists
Alden Tabac reports: A zero-day vulnerability in Google’s Chrome web browser was discovered on July 1 when it was used to target journalists in the Middle East, according to cybersecurity company Avast. The majority of the attacks took place in Lebanon. “Based on the malware and TTPs used to carry out the attack, we can confidently…
Months after Lopes claimed no anomalies found in their system, hackers were in their system
Lopes is a Brazilian firm that provides real estate services in the form of brokerage and project and financial consulting. Lopes had what appears to be a data breach involving customer data earlier this year. But why the data breach may have continued for months after they denied finding any anomaly in their system is…
An Entire Canadian Town Is Being Extorted By Ransomware Cyber Criminals
Lane Babuder reports: Ransomware attacks have been on the rise. This time around, the small Ontario, Canada town of St. Marys has been targeted. The ransomware organization behind the attack seems to be LockBit. So far though, no ransom has been paid. The town itself claims that most city functions are still operational and staff…