Security News
Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic has disclosed a security breach wherein an unauthorized third-party broke into its network and potentially accessed data from one of its file servers. "As the result of an internal investigation, it was determined that some data on a file server had been accessed during the intrusion," the company said in a short statement published on November 26.
Japanese multinational conglomerate Panasonic disclosed a security breach after unknown threat actors gained access to servers on its network this month."Panasonic Corporation has confirmed that its network was illegally accessed by a third party on November 11, 2021," the company said in a press release issued Friday.
Web hosting giant GoDaddy on Monday disclosed a data breach that resulted in the unauthorized access of data belonging to a total of 1.2 million active and inactive customers, making it the third security incident to come to light since 2018. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the world's largest domain registrar said that a malicious third-party managed to gain access to its Managed WordPress hosting environment on September 6 with the help of a compromised password, using it to obtain sensitive information pertaining to its customers.
GoDaddy says the recently disclosed data breach affecting roughly 1.2 million customers has also hit multiple Managed WordPress services resellers. GoDaddy acquired these brands after buying web hosting and cloud services companies Host Europe Group in 2017 and Media Temple in 2013.
In a data breach notification published today, GoDaddy said that the data of up to 1.2 million of its customers was exposed after hackers gained access to the company's Managed WordPress hosting environment."Our investigation is ongoing and we are contacting all impacted customers directly with specific details. Customers can also contact us via our help center which includes phone numbers based on country."
Only three percent of consumers implemented a credit freeze after receiving a data breach notice, 11 percent enrolled in credit/data monitoring, and only 22 percent changed all of their account passwords, a recent survey by DIG.Works on behalf of the Identity Theft Resource Center has shown. The ITRC believes that organizations should review how they notify consumers of data breaches with the goal of reducing the level of inaction and improving the rates of credit freeze adoption.
Utah Imaging Associates, a Utah-based radiology center, has announced a data breach affecting 582,170 people after their personal information was exposed. According to the data breach notification sent to affected individuals, the security incident was discovered on September 4, 2021, and was remediated on the same day.
California Pizza Kitchen served up more than tasty meals recently after a data breach exposed the names and Social Security numbers of more than 100,000 current and former employees. The "External system breach" occurred on Sept. 15 at the popular U.S. pizza chain and affected 103,767 people, according to a Data Breach Notification posted on the website of the Maine Attorney General.
To help, here's a simple 5-step framework businesses of all sizes can use to protect their customer data. The first step businesses need to take to increase the security of their customer data is to review what types of data they're collecting and why.
Singapore's Personal Data Protection Commission has issued a fine of SG$74,000 on travel company Commeasure, which operates a travel booking website named RedDoorz that exposed 5.9 million customers' data - the largest data breach handled by the Commission since its inception. RedDoorz started life in Indonesia before moving its operations to Singapore, from where it aggregates budget hotel bookings in select Southeast Asian cities.