BBC reports: A cyber-attack has disrupted live broadcasts on Australia’s Channel Nine TV network, prompting concerns about the country’s vulnerability to hackers. The broadcaster said it was unable to air several shows on Sunday, including Weekend Today. Nine said it was investigating whether the hack was “criminal sabotage or the work of a foreign nation”….
TR: Cyber attack statement from Yemeksepeti
Yemeksepeti is an online food delivery chain in Turkey and Cyprus. A translation of a news report indicated that they announced having experienced a cyberattack on Thursday morning, 25 March. The type of information involved reportedly includes: Name Date of birth Phone numbers registered with Yemeksepeti E-mail addresses registered in Yemeksepet Address information registered to…
Ca: Hackers demand ransom from Town of Didsbury in cyber attack
Dan Singleton reports: The Town of Didsbury was the victim of a cyber-attack on Sunday, March 21 when fraudsters encrypted the town’s information systems with ransomware and made a ransom demand to decrypt the system, town officials said Friday. Mayor Rhonda Hunter declined to say whether the Town of Didsbury has paid a ransom to…
More details emerged about FatFace ransomware attack
An attack on FatFace was already attracting media attention for the firm’s attempt to get people to keep their breach notification email confidential. Naturally, it got more attention that way. But on March 27, SuspectFile reported that the breach, first disclosed at the end of March, was more serious than what had been revealed previously….
Report: Draft Executive Order to Require Software Vendors to Notify Federal Customers of Cyber Breaches
Jane Edwards reports: A draft of an executive order would direct software companies to inform federal agency clients in the event of a cyber attack within their organizations, keep more digital records and work with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI on incident response efforts, Reuters reported Friday. The order would require multifactor authentication…
In: Threat actor offers to sell 8 TB of MobiKwik’s personal and financial data on almost 100M consumers
UPDATE1: MobiKwik is denying any breach. DataBreaches.net just received a statement from them: “Some media-crazed so-called security researchers have repeatedly attempted to present concocted files wasting precious time of our organization as well as members of the media. We thoroughly investigated and did not find any security lapses. Our user and company data is completely…