Security News

Revolut, the fintech company behing the popular banking app of the same name, has suffered a data breach, which has been followed by phishing attacks aimed at taking advantage of the situation. A few days later, some users received an alert via email saying their account was affected following a cyberattack.

American Airlines has notified customers of a recent data breach after attackers compromised an undisclosed number of employee email accounts and gained access to sensitive personal information. American Airlines discovered the breach on July 5th, immediately secured the impacted email accounts, and hired a cybersecurity forensic firm to investigate the security incident.

Empress EMS, a New York-based emergency response and ambulance service provider, has disclosed a data breach that exposed customer information. According to the notification, the company suffered a ransomware attack on July 14, 2022.

The breach appeared to have compromised many of Uber's internal systems, and a person claiming responsibility for the hack sent images of email, cloud storage and code repositories to cybersecurity researchers and The New York Times. "They pretty much have full access to Uber," said Sam Curry, a security engineer at Yuga Labs who corresponded with the person who claimed to be responsible for the breach.

U.S. moving and storage rental company U-Haul has suffered a data breach due to an unauthorized person having accessed an unspecified number of rental contracts, U-Haul's parent company Amerco has revealed in a last week.It is not known have many customers have been affected, but apparently their payment card information is safe - the person had access "Only" to customers' name, driver's license or state identification number.

Moving and storage giant U-Haul International disclosed a data breach after a customer contract search tool was hacked to access customers' names and driver's license information. As the company revealed notification letters sent to impacted individuals on Friday, it discovered on August 1, following an incident investigation, attackers accessed some customers' rental contracts between November 5, 2021, and April 5, 2022.

Impact of Samsung's most recent data breach unknown. Samsung announced on Sept. 2, 2022 its second data breach of 2022.

DUCK. I'm doing very, very well, thank you, Douglas! A messy thing that is bugging people is the question of this TikTok thing.

The denial follows alleged reports of a hack that surfaced on the Breach Forums message board on September 3, with the threat actor noting that the server holds 2.05 billion records in a humongous 790GB database. "Who would have thought that TikTok would decide to store all their internal backend source code on one Alibaba Cloud instance using a trashy password?," the hacking group known as BlueHornet tweeted over the weekend.

South Korean chaebol Samsung on Friday said it experienced a cybersecurity incident that resulted in the unauthorized access of some customer information, the second time this year it has reported such a breach. "In late July 2022, an unauthorized third-party acquired information from some of Samsung's U.S. systems," the company disclosed in a notice.