PTI reports: Akasa Air has suffered data breach resulting in access of user information by unauthorised individuals. The airline, which started operations on August 7, has apologised to its customers and has “self-reported the incident” to CERT-In, according to a communication. Read more at The Telegraph India.
Election data breach attracts Georgia investigators
Danny Hakim, Neil Vigdor and Richard Fausset report: The day after Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, a small group working on his behalf traveled to rural Coffee County, Ga., about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta. One member of the group was Paul Maggio, an executive at a firm based in Atlanta called SullivanStrickler, which…
Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach lawsuit ends in 11th hour settlement
Mark Townsend reports: Facebook has dramatically agreed to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for allowing Cambridge Analytica access to the private data of tens of millions of users, four years after the Observer exposed the scandal that mired the tech giant in repeated controversy. A court filing reveals that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has in principle settled for an…
A huge phishing campaign has targeted over 130 companies, affecting Twilio and Signal
Jess Weatherbed reports: Over 130 organizations, including Twilio, DoorDash, and Cloudflare, have been potentially compromised by hackers as part of a months-long phishing campaign nicknamed “0ktapus” by security researchers. Login credentials belonging to nearly 10,000 individuals were stolen by attackers who imitated the popular single sign-on service Okta, according to a report from cybersecurity outfit Group-IB. Read more…
‘Crisis’ for Utah prisoners as medical records glitch scrambles prescription info
We don’t see many breach reports involving lost devices these days, but records can also be lost due to other causes, such as cyberattacks that encrypt or corrupt files or attacks that delete records where there is no backup. In this case, records were lost during a move to a new facility and transition to…
SERNAC computer services hacked: Chile’s Interior Ministry assessing scope of cyberattack
The National Consumer Service (SERNAC) is the public service in Chile that is responsible for safeguarding and promoting consumer rights. On August 25, LaTercera reported that SERNAC’s website was down due to a cyberattack. SERNAC is coordinating their investigation and response with the Computer Emergency Response Team (CSIRT), the division of the Ministry of the…