Security News
Washington's State Auditor office has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information in 1.6 million employment claims. The Office of the Washington State Auditor states that they suffered a data breach after a threat actor exploited a vulnerability in a secure file transfer service from Accellion.
Mobile network operator USCellular suffered a data breach after hackers gained access to its CRM and viewed customers' accounts. In a data breach notification filed with the Vermont attorney general's office, USCellular states that retail store's employees were scammed into downloading software onto a computer.
I think this is the largest data breach of all time: 220 million people. EDITED TO ADD: I seem to be conflating two stories, one current and one from last year.
The ShinyHunters hacking group offer a raft of information, from location and contact info to dating preferences and bodily descriptions, as a free download. More than 2.28 million members of the online dating site MeetMindful have reportedly been caught up in a wide-ranging data breach that exposes everything from Facebook tokens to physical characteristics. The ShinyHunters hacking group has stolen and published the personally identifiable data of MeetMindful users, according to a report from ZDNet.
Menswear brand Bonobos has started informing customers of a data breach that may have resulted in their personal information getting compromised. Over the weekend, the company started informing users of a data breach that may have resulted in their personal information being stolen.
A threat actor has leaked the stolen database for Indian cryptocurrency exchange Buyucoin on a hacking forum for free. Over the weekend, a threat actor known as ShinyHunters posted the link to an archive that contains the alleged database dumps for the Buyucoin cryptocurrency exchange.
Bonobos men's clothing store has suffered a massive data breach exposing millions of customers' personal information after a cloud backup of their database was downloaded by a threat actor. Bonobos started as an online men's clothing store but later expanded to sixty locations to try on clothes before purchasing them.
The OpenWrt project has revealed that an attacker has managed to access information about its online forum users over the weekend, by compromising the account of a forum administrator. The OpenWrt project oversees the development of OpenWrt, an open-source, Linux-based embedded operating system/firmaware for a variety of routers and gateways, which can also be used on smartphones, laptops and personal computers.
The OpenWRT forum, a large community of enthusiasts of alternative, open-source operating systems for routers, announced a data breach. Forum administrators posted the announcement in a high-visibility area, explaining what happened and the risks to users stemming from exposing their data.
Capcom, the game developer behind Resident Evil, Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers, now says its recent attack compromised the personal data of up to 400,000 gamers. A ransomware attack launched against gaming company Capcom last November keeps getting worse.