Sead Fadilpašić reports: Italian luxury fashion brand Moncler has confirmed it suffered a major ransomware attack that led to a data breach. In a press release, the company said that after the incident occurred in late December last year, it had received a ransomware demand, which it rejected, as it goes “against its founding principles”. As a…
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Kings Plant Barn the latest retailer hit by click-and-collect data breach
Chris Keall reports: Kings Plant Barn has contacted customers about a security breach to FlexBooker, the internet-based system it uses to organise click-and-collect bookings. Names, email addresses and collection times were exposed. But the gardening chain says no credit card, password details or mobile have been spilled. Read more at New Zealand Herald.
Unhappy New Year for cybercriminals as VPNLab.net goes offline
Do threat actors feel like walls are closing in on them? They might well be feeling that way — or maybe they should be feeling that way. From Europol, today: This week, law enforcement authorities took action against the criminal misuse of VPN services as they targeted the users and infrastructure of VPNLab.net. The VPN…
South Africa’s new traffic fine system exposed personal data
Jan Vermeulen reports: An online interface set up for the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) system exposed the personal information of every South African who received an infringement notice under the new law. Personal data contained in the leak included full names, ID numbers, residential or business addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registration information,…
Data theft at Desjardins: the ex-employee wanted “no media coverage”
Natasha Kumar reports: Documents made public by the court on Monday at the request of the media reveal new details about the intentions of the ex-Desjardins employee unmasked by the financial institution in the spring of 2019. […] During this meeting, Sébastien Boulanger-Dorval implored to obtain unemployment and not to have criminal charges as well…
Mt: IT firm C-Planet fined €65,000 over massive voter data breach
Ivan Martin reports: An IT firm responsible for a massive leak of voter data has been fined €65,000 for data breaches. Data Protection Commissioner Ian Deguara issued the administrative penalty against C-Planet It Solutions Limited which was hired by the Labour Party to manage a cache of private information on some 337,384 Maltese voters. The…