Security News

Massive Data Breach at Uber
2022-09-16 14:07

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-Haul reports data breach, customers’ info exposed
2022-09-13 11:24

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.

U-Haul discloses data breach exposing customer driver licenses
2022-09-12 20:28

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
2022-09-09 20:04

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

S3 Ep99: TikTok “attack” – was there a data breach, or not? [Audio + Text]
2022-09-08 18:21

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

TikTok Denies Data Breach Reportedly Exposing Over 2 Billion Users' Information
2022-09-05 14:59

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.

Samsung Admits Data Breach that Exposed Details of Some U.S. Customers
2022-09-03 04:17

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.

Samsung discloses data breach after July hack
2022-09-02 17:23

Electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a new data breach today after some of its U.S. systems were hacked to steal customer data. Samsung later discovered on August 4 that customer personal information was accessed and exfiltrated out of its network.

Russian streaming platform confirms data breach affecting 7.5M users
2022-08-30 20:15

Russian media streaming platform 'START' has confirmed rumors of a data breach impacting millions of users. Even though a global reset isn't enforced by START, it is recommended that all users change their passwords.

DoorDash discloses new data breach tied to Twilio hackers
2022-08-26 19:30

Food delivery firm DoorDash has disclosed a data breach exposing customer and employee data that is linked to the recent cyberattack on Twilio. DoorDash previously suffered a data breach in 2019 that exposed the data of nearly 5 million customers.