Sergiu Gatlan reports: Artech Information Systems, one of the largest US IT staffing companies, has disclosed a data breach caused by a ransomware attack that affected some of its systems during early January 2020. Artech is a privately-held firm with an estimated $810 million annual revenue run rate for 2019 and more than 10,500 employees and consultants…
Researcher kept a major Bitcoin bug secret for two years to prevent attacks
Catalin Cimpanu reports: In 2018, a security researcher discovered a major vulnerability in Bitcoin Core, the software that powers the Bitcoin blockchain, but after reporting the issue and having it patched, the researcher opted to keep details private in order to avoid hackers exploiting the issue. Technical details were published earlier this week after the…
Even cybersecurity companies spill data and passwords
Danny Palmer reports: The business of cybersecurity companies is to keep users safe from hackers and cyber attacks but almost all cybersecurity providers have themselves had data leaked or stolen and published on dark web forums. Research by application security company Immuniweb found that nearly all of the top cybersecurity companies have had corporate data…
Singapore Says Grab’s Fourth Privacy Breach Is Concerning
Ameya Karve and Yoolim Lee report: Singapore’s privacy regulator imposed a S$10,000 ($7,311) penalty on ride-hailing company GrabCar Pte for a personal-data breach incident last year and raised the alarm on repeated violations by the unit of Grab Holdings Inc. In August 2019, an update of Grab’s mobile application exposed the personal data of more than…
CU Collections Notifies Customers of Data Security Incident
The following press release was released on Friday, September 11, after 5 pm. It appears to be the same press release CU Collections issued on July 29, with the exception that this one specifically mentions Wellspring Credit Union: CU Collections, LLC (“CU Collections” or the “Company”) announced today that it had suffered a data security…
Fairfax County Public Schools confirms it was a victim of cyberattack
There was nothing on the homepage of Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia that would indicate any cyberattack or problem, but the ransomware threat actors known as Maze had listed the FCPS on its leak site this week and provided some files as proof of access/acquisition. DataBreaches.net contacted FCPS to ask them whether they…