Zack Whittaker reports: Poshmark, an online marketplace for buying and selling clothes, has reported a data breach. The company said in a brief blog post that user profile information, including names and usernames, gender and city data was taken by an “unauthorized third party.” Email addresses, size preferences, and scrambled passwords were also taken. Read…
A newly discovered hacking group is targeting energy and telecoms companies
Zack Whittaker reports: There’s a new hacking group on the radar targeting telecommunications and oil and gas companies across Africa and the Middle East. Industrial security company Dragos, which discovered the group, calls it “Hexane,” but remains largely tight-lipped on its activities. The security company said Thursday, however, that the group’s activity has ramped up…
AL: Houston County Schools pushes school start back further
WTVY reports: Houston County Schools announced their second delay to the start of the school year. Students will now report back on Monday, August 12. Open House will be held on Thursday, August 8 from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. The delay is due to continued problems caused by a malware attack on the system’s…
More Than 4 Billions of Record Exposed from an Unknown Elastic Search Database
Leon writes: In March 2019, I found an unsecured Elasticsearch database which contains more than 4 billion records. The database was sensitive as it contains a lot of PII details as well as Geo-Coordinates of the vehicles meaning the location of the transportation vehicle is tracked and seems to be of an unknown company which…
IL: Dist. 26 Discovers Data Breach (Pearson)
Journal Staff reports: River Trails School Dist. 26 officials said they became aware Wednesday (July 31) of a data breach that occurred last November affecting student information dating back to 1997. According to Dist. 26 Supt. Nancy Wagner, the district received a letter from Pearson, a British-owned education publishing and assessment service for schools and…
Morris Jeff School becomes latest Louisiana school to suffer cybersecurity breach
Della Hasselle reports: Morris Jeff Community School in New Orleans has become the latest Louisiana public school — and apparently the first in the metro area — to experience a cybersecurity breach, continuing a crisis that has prompted an emergency declaration from Gov. John Bel Edwards and forced officials to try to minimize damage ahead…