Security News
International hotel chain Marriott today disclosed a data breach impacting nearly 5.2 million hotel guests, making it the second security incident to hit the company in recent years. The hospitality giant said an investigation into the breach was ongoing, but said there was no evidence that Marriott Bonvoy account passwords or PINs, payment card information, passport information, national IDs, or driver's license numbers were compromised.
A phisher's treasure chest of personally identifiable information for General Electric employees has been exposed - thanks to the compromise of one of the company's partners, Canon Business Process Services. The impact of the breach effects current and former GE employees and beneficiaries entitled to benefits, the conglomerate said.
General Electric revealed last week that the personal information of some employees may have been compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by Canon Business Process Services. In a data breach notification sent to affected individuals and submitted to the California Attorney General, GE said an unauthorized party gained access to a Canon email account containing documents belonging to some of its employees.
"Elite" hackers have tried - and failed - to breach computer systems and networks of the World Health Organization earlier this month, Reuters reported on Monday. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has also been warning Canadian health organizations about cyber criminals and spies.
University of Utah Health revealed last week that it discovered unauthorized access to some employee email accounts, along with a malware infection on one of its workstations. "From January 22 to February 27, 2020, we became aware that there was unauthorized access to some employees' email accounts. This unauthorized access occurred between January 7 and February 21, 2020," the hospital reveals.
Finastra, a company that provides a range of technology solutions to banks worldwide, said today it was shutting down key systems in response to a security breach discovered this morning. Update, 5:21 p.m. ET: Finastra has acknowledged that it is battling ransomware.
Over 60% of the Fortune 1000 had at least one public breach over the last decade, according to a Cyentia Institute research. On an annual basis, it is estimated one in four Fortune 1000 firms will suffer a cyber loss event.
Online guitar tutoring website TrueFire has apparently suffered a 'Magecart' style data breach incident that may have potentially led to the exposure of its customers' personal information and payment card information. TrueFire is one of the popular guitar tutoring websites with over 1 million users, where wanna-be-guitarists pay online to access a massive library of over 900 courses and 40,000 video lessons.
Online guitar tutoring website TrueFire has apparently suffered a 'Magecart' style data breach incident that may have potentially led to the exposure of its customers' personal information and payment card information. TrueFire is one of the popular guitar tutoring websites with over 1 million users, where wanna-be-guitarists pay online to access a massive library of over 900 courses and 40,000 video lessons.
Currency data provider Open Exchange Rates has started informing customers that their information was likely stolen by hackers. Open Exchange Rates provides a currency data API that is used by over 80,000 web developers.