Security News

Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak
2023-03-21 03:58

Latitude Financial has blamed a supplier for leaking creds that caused vast PII leak Australian outfit Latitude Financial has taken itself offline, and even stopped serving customers, while it tries to clean up an attack on its systems. Latitude said the attack on the vendor exposed credentials of its staff, which were used to log on to two other service providers it uses for matter such as identity verification.

Scandinavian Airlines says cyberattack caused passenger data leak
2023-02-16 20:32

Scandinavian Airlines has posted a notice warning passengers that a recent multi-hour outage of its website and mobile app was caused by a cyberattack that also exposed customer data. The cyberattack caused some form of a malfunction on the airline's online system, causing passenger data to become visible to other passengers.

Atlassian data leak caused by stolen employee credentials
2023-02-16 17:41

Atlassian suffered a data leak after threat actors used stolen employee credentials to steal data from a third-party vendor. Atlassian confirmed to BleepingComputer that the compromised data was from third-party vendor Envoy which they use for in-office functions.

Atlassian says recent data leak stems from third-party vendor hack
2023-02-16 17:41

Atlassian has confirmed that a breach at a third-party vendor caused a recent leak of company data and that their network and customer information is secure. As first reported by Cyberscoop, a hacking group known as SiegedSec leaked data on Telegram yesterday, claiming to be stolen from Atlassian, a collaboration software company based out of Australia.

Facebook to Pay $725 Million to settle Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Data Leak
2022-12-27 06:18

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The legal dispute sprang up in response to revelations that the social media giant allowed third-party apps such as those used by Cambridge Analytica to access users' personal information without their consent for political advertising.

Massive Twitter data leak investigated by EU privacy watchdog
2022-12-23 15:06

"The DPC corresponded with Twitter International Unlimited Company in relation to a notified personal data breach that TIC claims to be the source vulnerability used to generate the datasets and raised queries in relation to GDPR compliance," the Irish privacy regulator said on Friday. Twitter's lead EU watchdog wants to determine if Twitter has complied with its obligation as a data controller regarding the processing of users' data and if it infringed any General Data Protection Regulation or Data Protection Act 2018 provisions.

Twitter confirms recent user data leak is from 2021 breach
2022-12-12 19:27

Twitter confirmed today that the recent leak of millions of members' profiles, including private phone numbers and email addresses, resulted from the same data breach the company disclosed in August 2022. Twitter says its incident response team analyzed the user data leaked in November 2022 and confirms it was collected using the same vulnerability before it was fixed in January 2022.

How companies time data leak disclosures
2022-12-05 04:30

Every year the personal data of millions of people, such as passwords, credit card details, or health details, fall into the hands of unauthorized persons through hacking or data processing errors by companies. In the EU, any data leak that may result in risks for the concerned individuals must be reported within 72 hours.

Royal Mail customer data leak shutters online Click and Drop
2022-11-03 08:29

A technical SNAFU shut down the UK's Royal Mail Click and Drop website on Tuesday after a security "Issue" allowed some customers to see others' order information. The data leak started around 13:00 GMT, and according to an alert posted on Click and Drop's status page, Royal Mail shut down the website about an hour later.

Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies' Data Leak
2022-10-21 10:12

"This misconfiguration resulted in the potential for unauthenticated access to some business transaction data corresponding to interactions between Microsoft and prospective customers, such as the planning or potential implementation and provisioning of Microsoft services," Microsoft said in an alert.The exposure amounts to 2.4 terabytes of data that consists of invoices, product orders, signed customer documents, partner ecosystem details, among others.