Security News

The Motel One Group has announced that it has been targeted by ransomware actors who managed to steal some customer data, including the details of 150 credit cards. According to the company's press release, a group of unknown attackers infiltrated its network, intending to launch a ransomware attack, but had limited success thanks to its effective protective measures.

The BORN Ontario data breach that impacted 3.4 million people was caused by the exploitation of well-known zero-day vulnerability in Progress MOVEIt Transfer software. On Monday, September 25th, SickKids disclosed that it is "Among the many Ontario healthcare providers" that share sensitive health information with BORN Ontario, a perinatal and child registry that collects, interprets, shares and protects critical data about pregnancy, birth and childhood in the province of Ontario.

BORN is a perinatal and child registry that collects, interprets, shares and protects critical data about pregnancy, birth and childhood in the province of Ontario.BORN created a web page with details about the impact the incident has on its patients and who is likely affected by the data theft.

U.S. educational nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse has disclosed a data breach affecting 890 schools using its services across the United States. According to the data breach notification letters, the data exposed in the attack varies for each affected individual.

Air Canada, the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada, disclosed a cyber security incident this week in which hackers "Briefly" obtained limited access to its internal systems."An unauthorized group briefly obtained limited access to an internal Air Canada system related to limited personal information of some employees and certain records," reads a statement published Wednesday, September 20th, on Air Canada's press website.

T-Mobile has denied suffering another data breach following Thursday night reports that a threat actor leaked a large database allegedly containing T-Mobile employees' data. The mobile carrier told BleepingComputer that the leaked data is believed to belong to an authorized retailer, which was breached earlier this year.

Pizza Hut Australia is sending data breach notifications to customers, warning that a cyberattack allowed hackers to access their personal information. The notification warns that the hacker gained unauthorized access to Pizza Hut Australia systems storing sensitive info for customers who made online orders, as well as partial financial data and encrypted account passwords.

Pizza Hut's Australian outpost has suffered a data breach. Yes, dear reader - that means the bad guys have seen a database of people who like pineapple on their pizzas.

The dreaded data breach is an outcome feared by companies of all sizes in today's threat landscape, largely due to the significant costs involved. Each year, IBM's eagerly anticipated Cost of a Data Breach Report seems to come with the bad news of an increase in data breach costs, and 2023 is no exception.

Software bug-tracking company Rollbar disclosed a data breach after unknown attackers hacked its systems in early August and gained access to customer access tokens.The security breach was discovered by Rollbar on September 6 when reviewing data warehouse logs showing that a service account was used to log into the cloud-based bug monitoring platform.