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…
Category: Non-U.S.
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…
Top Australian tenancy blacklist firm under investigation by information commissioner
Ben Butler reports: The federal information commissioner is investigating a potential data breach at one of Australia’s biggest tenancy blacklists, run by Sydney company Trading Reference Australia (TRA). TRA has moved to stymie the investigation, obtaining a federal court injunction that quashes an order from the commissioner that it hand over information about the breach….
Luxottica hacker attack returned
Marco A. De Felice reports: As reported by Ansa , the production and logistics plants of Agordo and Sedico were shut down yesterday morning due to an unspecified ” computer system failure”. After yesterday’s block of the second work shift, with employees invited (via SMS) not to come to the company, in the evening the company had decided…
AU: University of Tasmania IT bungle leads to mass student data breach
Mark Saunokonoko reports: Nearly 20,000 University of Tasmania (UTAS) students have had their personal information exposed to the entire campus after a major IT bungle. The data contained “personally identifiable information” of students at the university. UTAS told 9News in a statement there was “no evidence” malicious activity had caused the data breach. Read more on 9News.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus reacted to the leak of data from law enforcement officers
Bhavi Mandalia reports: The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus reacted to the leak of data from law enforcement officers to the Internet….. The data of more than a thousand law enforcement officers were made public on September 19. In particular, the surnames, first names, patronymics, dates of birth, city of residence, rank and position…