Security News

Burton Snowboards discloses data breach after February attack
2023-06-02 16:19

Leading snowboard maker Burton Snowboards confirmed notified customers of a data breach after some of their sensitive information was "Potentially" accessed or stolen during what the company described in February as a "Cyber incident." The attack was discovered by Burton on February 11 after causing a "System outage" and forcing the company to cancel online orders.

MCNA Dental data breach impacts 8.9 million people after ransomware attack
2023-05-29 13:49

Managed Care of North America Dental has published a data breach notification on its website, informing almost 9 million patients that their personal data were compromised.MCNA Dental is one of the largest government-sponsored dental care and oral health insurance providers in the U.S. In a notice published Friday, MCNA says it became aware of unauthorized access to its computer systems on March 6th, 2023, with an investigation revealing that the hackers first gained access to MCNA's network on February 26th, 2023.

Barracuda Warns of Zero-Day Exploited to Breach Email Security Gateway Appliances
2023-05-26 04:04

Email protection and network security services provider Barracuda is warning users about a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited to breach the company's Email Security Gateway appliances. "The vulnerability stems from incomplete input validation of a user-supplied.tar file as it pertains to the names of the files contained within the archive. As a consequence, a remote attacker can specifically format these file names in a particular manner that will result in remotely executing a system command through Perl's qx operator with the privileges of the Email Security Gateway product."

Chinese hackers breach US critical infrastructure in stealthy attacks
2023-05-24 20:43

Microsoft says a Chinese cyberespionage group it tracks as Volt Typhoon has been targeting critical infrastructure organizations across the United States, including Guam, since at least mid-2021. "Microsoft assesses with moderate confidence that this Volt Typhoon campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said.

Apria Healthcare says potentially 2M people caught up in IT security breach
2023-05-23 23:58

"Based on the investigation, it was determined that information potentially accessed in the incident varied for each individual and may have included personal, medical, health insurance or financial information, and in some limited cases, Social Security numbers," according to a notice on Apria's website. The healthcare biz also provided more details about what happened in a data security breach notification letter sent to 1,869,598 people.

Luxottica confirms 2021 data breach after info of 70M leaks online
2023-05-19 13:37

Luxottica has confirmed one of its partners suffered a data breach in 2021 that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers after a database was posted this month for free on hacking forums. Luxottica suffered a data breach in August 2020 that exposed the personal information of 829,454 EyeMed and Lenscrafters patients.

US Dept of Transport security breach exposes info on a quarter-million people
2023-05-16 21:30

TRANServe - an electronic travel pass system managed by DoT, and used by many employees across the federal government to encourage use of public transport - told Congress it made a mistake in protecting that data.The DoT told The Register its CIO office "Isolated the breach to certain systems at the department used for administrative functions, such as employee transit benefits processing," adding that the incident did not affect any transportation safety systems.

US Dept of Transport security breach exposes info on a quarter-million people
2023-05-16 21:30

TRANServe - an electronic travel pass system managed by DoT, and used by many employees across the federal government to encourage use of public transport - told Congress it made a mistake in protecting that data. The DoT told The Register its CIO office "Isolated the breach to certain systems at the department used for administrative functions, such as employee transit benefits processing," adding that the incident did not affect any transportation safety systems.

Discord discloses data breach after support agent got hacked
2023-05-12 19:05

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Brightly warns of SchoolDude data breach exposing credentials
2023-05-11 20:25

U.S. tech company and Siemens subsidiary Brightly Software is notifying customers that their personal information and credentials were stolen by attackers who gained access to the database of its SchoolDude online platform. "We at Brightly Software are writing to let you know about a recent security incident affecting an account you have on our SchoolDude application, an online platform used by educational institutions for placing and tracking maintenance work orders," Brightly told affected SchoolDude users.