Jonathan Greig reports: Morgan Stanley will pay a $35 million penalty to settle charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for wide-ranging failures around properly disposing of hard drives and servers containing the personal information of some 15 million customers. The company did not respond to requests for comment, but the SEC said in…
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SIM Swapper Abducted, Beaten, Held for $200k Ransom
Brian Krebs reports: A Florida teenager who served as a lackey for a cybercriminal group that specializes in cryptocurrency thefts was beaten and kidnapped last week by a rival cybercrime gang. The teen’s captives held guns to his head while forcing him to record a video message pleading with his crew to fork over a…
Ask.FM user database with 350m user records has shown up for sale (UPDATED with Denial from Ask.FM)
“I think it’s probably one of the biggest breaches in a long time, can’t think of any bigger ones,” Pompompurin, the owner of Breached.to, wrote when asked about a new for-sale listing that appeared on his forum. A seller called “Data,” who Pompompurin says he will “vouch all day and night for” listed user data…
Scoop: VSS Medical Technology’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
DataBreaches suspects that most readers would agree that getting hit by a ransomware gang qualifies your day as a very bad day. But how about getting hit by two different ransomware gangs on the same day? VSS Medical Technology and one of their companies, Sigmund Software, had what sounds like a terrible, horrible, no good,…
Fired Uber attorney testifies against ex-security chief in trial over 2016 data breach cover-up
Maria Dinzeo reports: A onetime attorney for Uber who was fired for his role in a suspected coverup of a major 2016 data breach took the stand in the criminal criminal obstruction trial of his former boss on Wednesday, testifying that ex-security chief Joe Sullivan was responsible for changes to a nondisclosure agreement with two…
The Great Resignation linked to a great data theft
Ian Barker reports: We’ve all heard of the Great Resignation, a pandemic-driven shift in people’s work preferences. But new research from Cyberhaven suggests that this has gone hand-in-hand with a huge stealing of data. Based on anonymized details from over 1.4 million workers and spanning 360,000 data exfiltration incidents and a broad sample of companies, including…