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American education technology company Chegg this week sent notifications to its employees to inform them of a data breach that occurred earlier this month. The company says that it learned of the data breach on April 10, 2020, and that the information of both current and former employees might have been exfiltrated in the incident.
Attackers used an account checker tool to identify Nintendo accounts with compromised and vulnerable login credentials, says SpyCloud. The recent data breach that hit Nintendo affected 160,000 people, resulting in account takeovers and financial losses for a host of users.
A breach has impacted the accounts of some 160,000 Nintendo users. Nintendo users are being forced to change passwords following a data breach that has affected 160,000 people.
Nintendo said over 160,000 accounts have been hacked, due to attackers abusing a legacy login system. According to the complaints, aired out on Twitter and Reddit, unauthorized actors were logging into victims' accounts and abusing the payment cards connected to the accounts to buy digital goods on Nintendo's online stores, such as V-Bucks, in-game currency used in Fortnite.
A data breach is an event that can affect any website, especially at the worst possible time. One of the latest organizations impacted by a breach is the Small Business Administration through an incident in which the personal data of 7,913 users was mistakenly shared with other people.
Thousands of small business owners reeling from the aggressive measures taken to halt the spread of the coronavirus may have had their personal information exposed last month on a government website that handles disaster loan applications. The Small Business Administration said Tuesday that the personal information of more than 7,000 business owners applying for economic injury disaster loans was potentially seen by other applicants on the SBA website on March 25.
Massachusetts and Indiana, the only two U.S. states that independently sued Equifax over the massive data breach that occurred in 2017, have settled with the credit reporting agency for a total of close to $40 million. The Equifax data breach affected roughly 147 million people.
SafeBreach has raised a further $19 million to improve and expand its breach-and-attack simulation platform, which allows customers to assess their security posture against a continuous barrage of genuine, but safe, hacker behaviors. The SafeBreach BAS platform allows users to continually test and assess their security posture by delivering simulated breach methods from an extensive playbook of more than 13,000 breach behaviors.
Hackers managed to breach two websites pertaining to the San Francisco International Airport in March 2020, the airport has revealed. The incident involved SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com, two low-traffic websites designed to keep visitors informed on a variety of SFO-related topics, such as the COVID-19 crisis, alternate AirTrain routing, airfield operations, airport construction contracts, and the like.
The San Francisco International Airport disclosed this week two of its websites had been hacked and lead to the disclosure of some users' login credentials at both sites. "The attackers inserted malicious computer code on these websites to steal some users' login credentials," according to a message posted to both site's homepages by the SFO's Airport Information Technology and Telecommunications director.