Patrick O’Neill reports: A hacker is selling a database supposedly containing 83,000 compromised accounts from UPI.com, the website of the 110-year-old American news agency United Press International. After being contacted by CyberScoop, UPI alerted its entire email subscriber base Tuesday and removed login pages and entire sections of its website. Read more on CyberScoop.
Maryland Bill Introduces Criminal, Civil Penalties for Ransomware
Jacob Taylor reports: A bill that introduces steep penalties for the perpetrators of ransomware attacks, like the one that disabled the network of several Maryland hospitals last year, is making its way through the Maryland legislature. The bill defines ransomware attacks as felonies that would carry a penalty of up to 10 years in prison…
Mag publisher Future stored your FileSilo passwords in plaintext. Then hackers hit
Shaun Nichols reports: UK magazine publisher Future’s FileSilo website has been raided by hackers, who have made off with, among other information, unencrypted user account passwords. FileSilo.co.uk is a website Future’s mag subscribers can log into to download materials, such as Photoshop templates and graphics, for tutorials published in its print titles. Future is responsible…
Loblaw, Canadian Tire respond to breach reports
Aleksandra Sagan reports: Loblaw is warning PC Plus rewards collectors to beef up their passwords after points were stolen from some members’ accounts. “We are treating this as a breach as individual member accounts were accessed and points were stolen,” said Kevin Groh, the company’s vice-president of corporate affairs and communication, in a statement. Meanwhile, Global News reported…
Malware hit Hitachi Payments Services, 3.2 million cards affected
Press Trust of India reports: Hitachi Payments Services on Thursday accepted its systems were compromised by a sophisticated malware in mid-2016, that led to one of the biggest cyber security breaches in the country with 3.2 million cards affected and a scare over security of card-based transactions. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) had…
15,000 data files of Taiwanese nationals possibly hacked: Govt
Joseph Yeh reports: They claimed that no nationals had yet reported that they were victimised due to the hack. Speaking at an emergency press event, Winston Chung, deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA), apologised to the public at an emergency press conference, saying that the possible leak was…