Marion Neumann reports (translation): Munich – In times of the corona lockdown , online shopping is probably a blessing for many people. Products can be conveniently delivered to your home with just a few clicks. However, the shopping experience becomes problematic when there are difficulties with data protection. There was such a problem recently with the online shop voelkner.de . According…
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UK: Foxtons customer data leaked onto the dark web
Sabina Weston reports: Financial details belonging to customers of UK estate agency Foxtons are widely available on the dark web following a malware attack in October last year that affected parent company Foxtons Group. Despite admitting that the incident affected its subsidiary Alexander Hall, which specialises in mortgage broking, Foxtons assured its customers at the time that no “sensitive…
BR: State-owned energy utility, COPEL, suffers cyberattack (UPDATED)
Bruno Soares reports: Companhia Paranaense de Energia (Copel) suffered cyber attacks last night that caused instability in part of its systems. According to the company, the operation and protection systems detected the attacks and the security protocols were followed, with the suspension of the operation of its computerized environment to protect the integrity of the…
Fr: Yvelines. The town of Houilles paralyzed by a cyberattack
Juliette Vignaud of 78Actu reports (translation): The city of Houilles ( Yvelines ) has been facing a cyberattack since Saturday, January 30. The municipality announced it on its social networks: “The City of Houilles is the victim of a cyberattack which paralyzes the website and the municipal IT and digital services. It is not able to send e-mails or process paperless requests and procedures. The City…
Data of 300,000 customers leaked in São Paulo
Sofia Mandelert, Thamilla Talarico, Nuria López and Renato Gomes Malafaia of Daniel Law write: Following procedures contained in the LGPD (Brazil’s new data protection law), the international company Enel, with operations in Brazil, has started contacting its customers in relation to a data breach affecting the data of at least 300 thousand clients in the…
Mensa Website Hacked After Britain’s Smartest Folk Failed To Secure Passwords
Barry Collins reports: British Mensa, the society for people with high IQs, failed to properly secure the passwords on its website, prompting a hack on its website that has resulted in the theft of members’ personal data. Eugene Hopkinson, a former director and technology officer at British Mensa, stood down this week, claiming that the…