Yang Jie and Liza Lin report: A Chinese software developer trawled Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ’s popular Taobao shopping website for eight months, clandestinely collecting more than 1.1 billion pieces of user information before Alibaba noticed the scraping, a Chinese court verdict said. The software developer began using web-crawling software he designed on Taobao’s site starting in November…
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Thai government apologises for data leak, blames “temporary glitch
Jack Arthur reports: The Thai government has released a statement apologising for the data leak on Monday which saw people who registered for a Covid vaccine have their personal information revealed. The government says there was a “temporary glitch” on the thailandintervac.com vaccination booking website and the error was because of “urgent system maintenance”. Read…
Ca: Humber River Hospital hit by ransomware variant, prompt response prevented encryption and exfiltration
Humber River Hospital in Toronto was hit with a ransomware attack in the early hours of the morning of June 14. Their response was organized, immediate, and reportedly very effective. The following is a statement prominently displayed on their web site today: Code Grey- Update On June 14, 2021, at about 0200 hrs we experienced…
Kr: HMM email systems hit by cyber virus attack
Marcus Hand reports that the South Korean shipping line has disclosed a breach: HMM said that an unidentified security breach was detected to its email servers in the early hours of 12 June leading to limited access to email systems. Over the following two days it said most of the confirmed damage to the system…
McDonald’s hit by data breach, customer personal data exposed in South Korea, Taiwan
Michelle Chapman reports: McDonald’s has become the latest company to be hit by a data breach after unauthorized activity on its network exposed the personal data of some customers in South Korea and Taiwan. McDonald’s Corp. said Friday that it quickly identified and contained the incident and that a thorough investigation was done. Read mre…
Healthcare entities in Saudi Arabia, Illinois, and Mississippi fall prey to Xing Team
Note: updates to the breaches included in this report appear below the original post. Some threat actors have gained a lot of notoriety while others are lesser known. In this article, DataBreaches.net reports on a relatively unknown group that has been hitting the healthcare sector, “Xing Team.” Like other groups, Xing maintains a dedicated leak…