Security News

Air India data breach impacts 4.5 million customers
2021-05-21 18:48

Air India disclosed a data breach after personal information belonging to roughly 4.5 million of its customers was leaked two months following the hack of Passenger Service System provider SITA in February 2021. "This is to inform that SITA PSS our data processor of the passenger service system had recently been subjected to a cybersecurity attack leading to personal data leak of certain passengers," Air India said in a breach notification sent over the weekend.

E-commerce giant suffers major data breach in Codecov incident
2021-05-21 09:26

E-commerce platform Mercari has disclosed a major data breach incident that occurred due to exposure from the Codecov supply-chain attack. Today, e-commerce giant Mercari has disclosed major impact from the Codecov supply-chain attack on its customer data.

Student health insurance carrier Guard.me suffers a data breach
2021-05-18 00:57

Me is one of the world's largest insurance carriers specializing in providing health insurance to students while traveling or studying abroad in another country. Me discovered suspicious activity on their website that led them to take down their website.

CybelAngel Data Breach Prevention detects data leaking from the three cloud storage providers
2021-05-13 02:00

CybelAngel announced the most comprehensive Data Breach Prevention in the Cloud service, offering unmatched scanning capabilities, detecting data leaking from the top three Cloud storage providers, AWS S3 Buckets, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage. CybelAngel's announcement offers the opportunity to secure cloud infrastructures and monitor for data exposure better than ever before.

City of Chicago Hit by Data Breach at Law Firm Jones Day
2021-05-10 11:06

The city of Chicago on Friday said that employee emails were compromised in a Jones Day data breach involving Accellion's FTA file sharing service. On Friday, the city of Chicago revealed that some employee emails that were given to Jones Day "As part of an independent inquiry being conducted by the firm" were compromised in the incident.

U.S. Agency for Global Media data breach caused by a phishing attack
2021-05-04 23:54

The U.S. Agency for Global Media has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of current and former employees and their beneficiaries. USAGM is a US government agency whose mission is to "Inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy." USAGM operates broadcast networks, such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, to deliver news and information to people worldwide.

58% of orgs predict remote workers will expose them to data breach risk
2021-05-03 03:30

35% of UK IT decision makers admitted that their remote workers have already knowingly put corporate data at risk of a breach in the last year according to an annual survey conducted by Apricorn. 58 percent still believe that remote workers will expose their organization to the risk of a data breach.

Passwordstate Warns of Ongoing Phishing Attacks Following Data Breach
2021-04-30 00:24

Click Studios, the Australian software firm which confirmed a supply chain attack affecting its Passwordstate password management application, has warned customers of an ongoing phishing attack by an unknown threat actor. "We have been advised a bad actor has commenced a phishing attack with a small number of customers having received emails requesting urgent action," the company said in an updated advisory released on Wednesday.

DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information
2021-04-28 20:09

Cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean has disclosed a data breach after a flaw exposed customers' billing information. An email sent out to affected customers by DigitalOcean states that a "Flaw" allowed an unauthorized user to access customers' billing details between April 9th, 2021, and April 22nd, 2021.

MangaDex discloses data breach after stolen database shared online
2021-04-27 14:46

Manga scanlation site MangaDex disclosed a data breach last week after learning that the site's user database was privately circulating among threat actors. In March, MangaDex was hacked, and a threat actor claimed to have stolen the site's source code and its database, which they said had not been published anywhere.