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  • Air Europa Advises Customers to Cancel Credit Cards Following Cyber Attack

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    Customers of Spanish airline Air Europa were on Tuesday advised by the company to cancel their credit cards following a cyberattack affecting its online payment system. The company, based on the island of Mallorca, did not announce how many customers were affected nor when the attack took place. In a statement reported by Reuters, the airline said:… Read more

  • Facebook’s Home Page Gets Hacked

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    Hacking of user accounts and pages on social media is nothing new. Even high-profile personalities, including politicians and celebrities, have experienced page compromises, with scammers posting messages in their names. However, a rare event occurred on October 6th, 2023, when Facebook users were stunned to see strange posts emanating from Facebook’s official page. What made these… Read more

  • The 23andMe DNA Testing Data Breach

    he DNA testing company 23andMe is investigating whether a large trove of customer data was stolen from the company after information about the firm’s clients was offered for sale on a cybercrime forum earlier this week. On Sunday, a post on a popular forum where stolen data is traded and sold claimed to have “the… Read more

  • SONY Confirms a Data Breach

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    Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) has notified current and former employees and their family members about a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal information. The company sent the data breach notification to about 6,800 individuals, confirming that the intrusion occurred after an unauthorized party exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform. The zero-day is CVE-2023-34362, a… Read more

  • MOVEit Breach Allows Cybercriminals Access to 3.4 Million Baby Records

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    Canada’s Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) fears a MOVEit breach allowed cybercriminals to copy 3.4 million people’s childcare health records dating back more than a decade. BORN, which collates and uses information on “pregnancy, birth, the newborn period and childhood to improve care,” says it became aware of the incident on May 31 and… Read more

  • World Baseball Softball Confederation Strikes Out With Breach Exposing Passport Info

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    The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) left open a data repository exposing nearly 50,000 files, some of which were highly sensitive. researchers discovered a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket storing nearly 48,000 files. A bucket is a container for storing data within AWS’s cloud storage system. The misconfiguration exposed the repository’s contents The exposed… Read more

  • TeslaMate Leaking Data Exposing Tesla Cars

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    Misconfigured TeslaMate apps can leak tons of data on the internet, potentially exposing Tesla cars and their drivers to malicious attacks. A third-party data logging application, TeslaMate relies on the Tesla API to retrieve various types of information about Tesla cars, making it available to users on their computers. While the application is a great… Read more

  • 75% of All Data Breaches Include Human Error – Verizon

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    Whether it was falling for a phishing email, errors, or misusing their access to computer systems, nearly three quarters of breaches last year involved humans doing something wrong. According to Verizon’s 16th Annual Data Breach Investigations Report, 74 percent of all breaches include the human element through error, privilege misuse, social engineering, or use of stolen credentials.… Read more

  • Mixin Loses $200 Million in Crypto

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    A cryptocurrency business based in Hong Kong announced on Monday that hackers had stolen around $200 million of its assets after attacking its cloud service provider. Mixin, which describes itself as building “open source software that always puts security, privacy and decentralization first” announced the incident in a social media post. The company said that… Read more

  • 2 Million Pakistani’s Have Banking and Credit Card Info Stolen

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    More than 2 million Pakistani citizens are facing risk of data leak as hackers got access to a private company-made database used by hundreds of restaurants. The incident affected customers who gave their private data to restaurants for a treasure trove of personal information like credit cards, addresses and other bank details. Media reports revealed… Read more