Lili Zheng reports: Oklahoma City Public Schools have confirmed they are addressing a recent ransomware attack, compromising the district’s network. On Monday, OKCPS stated their network was “significantly compromised by a form of malware” and that the issue was “continuing to worsen.” Early Tuesday evening, an updated statement from the district confirmed that ‘form’ of…
Bank customers’ personal data sold to credit card salespeople: Kompas investigation
The Jakarta Post reports: A network of credit card salespeople and bank employees have been trading the personal information of bank customers and credit card holders with each other in an effort to make quicker sales, as reported by Kompas daily in a recent investigation. Personal information sold by the salespeople comprised a customer’s name,…
Hackers access data from more than 460,000 accounts at Uniqlo’s online store
Eustance Huang reports: Fast Retailing, the Japanese company behind the Uniqlo retail chain, announced Monday that the data of more than 460,000 customers on its online shopping sites were accessed by hackers from April 23 to May 10. In a statement released on its website, Fast Retailing said: “It was confirmed on May 10, 2019…
Equitas Health notifies 569 members after discovering two employee email accounts had been compromised
Equitas Health, Inc. (“Equitas Health”) learned that it was the victim of a data incident and is notifying individuals whose information may have been affected. On January 8, 2019, Equitas Health became aware of unusual activity within an employee’s email account. Equitas Health conducted an internal investigation which revealed that an unauthorized individual had access…
Over 25,00 smart Linksys routers are leaking sensitive data
Charlie Osborne reports: Over 25,000 Linksys Smart Wi-Fi routers are believed to be vulnerable to remote exploit by attackers, leading to the leak of sensitive information. According to Bad Packets’ security researcher Troy Mursch, the security problem was discovered after the firm’s honeypots flagged the persistent flaw, which “allows unauthenticated remote access to sensitive information.”…
WhatsApp urges users to upgrade app after security breach
Steven Scheer reports: Facebook’s WhatsApp urged users to upgrade to the latest version of its popular messaging app after reporting that users might be vulnerable to having malicious spyware installed on phones without their knowledge. […] Earlier, the Financial Times (FT) reported that a vulnerability in WhatsApp allowed attackers to inject spyware on phones by ringing…