Security News
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.
The Associated Press is warning of a data breach impacting AP Stylebook customers where the attackers used the stolen data to conduct targeted phishing attacks. This week, the Associated press warns that an old third-party-managed AP Stylebook site that was no longer in use was hacked between July 16 and July 22, 2023, allowing the data for 224 customers to be stolen.
According to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, the average cost of a data breach in Australia has grown by 32% in five years to AU $4.03 million. As the risk of data breach incidents rise, IT leaders are in a position to minimize the cost of a data breach by implementing DevSecOps, utilizing AI and automation, prioritizing incident response planning and testing, streamlining data breach discovery and taking out adequate cybersecurity insurance for when the worst happens.
Dymocks Booksellers is warning customers their personal information was exposed in a data breach after the company's database was shared on hacking forums.The company was informed that its customer data was stolen on September 6th, 2023, by Troy Hunt, the creator of the data breach notification service 'Have I Been Pwned', after a threat actor released it on a hacking forum.
Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems has informed its CarePath customers that their sensitive information has been compromised in a third-party data breach involving IBM. IBM is a technology service provider for Janssen; specifically, it manages the CarePath application and database supporting its functions. IBM has published a separate announcement about the incident that says there are no indications the stolen data has been misused.
Freecycle, an online forum dedicated to exchanging used items rather than trashing them, confirmed a massive data breach that affected more than 7 million users. The nonprofit organization says it discovered the breach on Wednesday, weeks after a threat actor put the stolen data for sale on a hacking forum on May 30, warning affected people to switch passwords immediately.
Nearly four weeks after the Police Service of Northern Ireland published data on 10,000 employees in a botched response to a Freedom of Information request, another two men, aged 21 and 22, have been released on bail after being arrested under the Terrorism Act. On August 8, it mistakenly published a spreadsheet with the details of every serving Northern Ireland police officer online in response to a Freedom of Information request at the beginning of August.
The University of Sydney announced that a breach at a third-party service provider exposed personal information of recently applied and enrolled international applicants. In the data breach announcement, the university says that incident had a limited impact and the preliminary investigation found no evidence that local students, staff, or alumni have been impacted.