Michael Carroll reports: Bosses at retailer 7-Eleven Japan called time on its fledgling 7Pay mobile payment service, after deeming attempts to recover from a major security breach were too onerous. The service launched on 1 July offering cashless payments in the retailer’s chain of convenience stores, but within days the set-up was attacked by fraudsters…
One Misconfig (JIRA) to Leak Them All- Including NASA and Hundreds of Fortune 500 Companies!
Avinash Jain writes: Some months back, I published an article on “Exposed JIRA server leaks NASA staff and project data” in which I was able to find NASA staff details, their username, their email ids along with their internal project details which were getting leaked by one of their tools — JIRA which is an…
Lost garda documents fell from back of bike
Darrah McDonagh reports: Garda documents fell off the back of a motorcycle when it hit a speed bump and were never recovered, according to records. The incident was one of more than 40 data-protection breaches involving sensitive information held by the Department of Justice and Equality that were recorded last year. Read more on The…
Ikea says sorry for customer data breach due to email gaffe
Malavika Menon reports: Swedish retailer Ikea yesterday apologised to affected customers in Singapore after the company inserted 410 individual e-mail addresses in the wrong message field of a promotional mailer and sent it out. A spokesman for Ikea Singapore said the incident occurred at 4.57pm last Thursday and that it “regretfully made an error of…
Extortion Emails on the Rise: A Look at The Different Types
Lawrence Abrams reports: Since 2018, a constant stream of extortion email scams have been targeting users with fake threats designed to scare you into sending a payment in bitcoins to avoid an embarrassing leak or threat of legal action. These extortion emails are being sent through large spam botnets or through smaller campaigns undertaken by lone…
Broken Arrow Schools Victim Of Ransomware Attack
Justin Shrair reports: Broken Arrow Public Schools network and servers have been hit by ransomware. The district said they have contacted the FBI and that cyber security experts are working to try and fix the issue. An investigation is underway to try and figure out who sent the ransomware. Read more on News6.