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Eggfree Cake Box has disclosed a data breach after threat actors hacked their website to stole credit card numbers. Cake Box is a UK chain of stores selling fresh cream celebration cakes made without eggs.
Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise ship operator, has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to some of its IT systems and the personal, financial, and health information belonging to customers, employees, and crew. "Unauthorized third-party access to a limited number of email accounts was detected on March 19, 2021," the cruise line operator giant says in a data breach notification letter recently sent to affected customers.
Based on the information collected by the company to date, it believes the impact of the incident was limited and the attackers only managed to access roughly 0.2% of its data. Gateley admitted that the compromised data included some client information and the firm said it will notify impacted customers.
Pizza takeaway and delivery outfit Papa John's has been fined £10,000 by the UK's data watchdog for sending marketing fluff to punters without their say-so. Following a year-long investigation, the Information Commissioner's Office found that the company had sent 168,022 "Nuisance marketing messages to its customers without the valid consent required by law."
America's largest propane provider, AmeriGas, has disclosed a data breach that lasted ephemerally but impacted 123 employees. This month's data breach was reported by the propane giant to the Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General.
Technology research company Comparitech on Monday said its researchers discovered that a cybersecurity firm had exposed a database containing more than 5 billion user records. An investigation revealed that the database stored information that had been compromised in data breaches suffered by various companies over the past years.
Audi and Volkswagen have suffered a data breach affecting 3.3 million customers after a vendor exposed unsecured data on the Internet. It is responsible for US and Canadian operations for Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, and VW Credit, Inc. According to data breach notifications filed with the California and Maine Attorney General's office, VWGoA disclosed that a vendor left unsecured data exposed on the Internet between August 2019 and May 2021.
Volkswagen Group of America this week revealed that approximately 3.3 million people might have been affected in a data breach that impacted both Audi of America and Volkswagen of America. "VWGoA discovered the information at issue included more sensitive personal information on or about May 24, 2021. VWGoA completed the analysis to identify which specific individuals were impacted on or about June 7, 2021," the company said in a letter to the Maine Attorney General.
Potential buyers could be interested in using the source code to game the game to make millions, perhaps sounding EA's death knell in the process. The news that games giant Electronic Arts was hacked and the source code and software development kits to many popular games like FIFA 21 and 22 as well as the source code to Frostbite, the games engine that powers many of popular titles such as Madden, Need for Speed and Battlefield, has spread like wildfire in the past 24 hours.
McDonald's, the largest fast-food chain globally, has disclosed a data breach after hackers breached its systems and stole information belonging to customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan. As the world's global foodservice retailer, McDonald's serves almost hundreds of millions of customers every day in more than 39,000 locations in over 100 countries, including roughly 14,000 restaurants in the US alone.