Category: Data loss
A former boss of Ticketmaster has been sentenced after pleading guilty to illegally accessing computer servers of a rival company and stealing sensitive business information.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
A man from New York City has admitted to computer hacking and associated crimes after being caught with a laptop containing hundreds of thousands of stolen payment card details.
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This story seems straightforward. A city is the victim of a ransomware attack. They repeatedly lie to the media about the severity of the breach. A security researcher repeatedly proves their statements to be lies. The city gets mad and sues the researcher.
Let’s hope the judge throws the case out, but—still—it will serve as a warning to others.
A production partner of Netflix has suffered a serious security breach which has resulted in yet-to-be-released episodes of popular shows to be leaked online.
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Cybercriminals have succeeded in stealing the payment card information from over 110,000 animal lovers over several months after meddling with Oregon Zoo's online ticket payment system.
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The staggering sum of US $75 million has reportedly been paid to a ransomware gang in what is believed to be the largest known ransom payment made by a cyber attack victim since records began.
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On Friday posts were published on the internet containing what appeared to be the personal information of Israeli Olympic athletes.
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Hackers have released internal documents stolen from one of America's largest IT services providers, which counts various US government agencies, including the Department of Defense, amongst its customers.
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British police have arrested a 17-year-old boy believed to be linked to a cybercriminal gang that launched devastating ransomware attacks last year on MGM Resorts and other companies.
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A group of hacktivists claims to have breached the IT systems of Disney, and stolen a gigantic 1.1 terabytes worth of data from the entertainment giant's internal Slack messaging channels.
The hacking group, which calls itself NullBulge, posted on an underground hacking forum that it had hoped to postpone announcing the breach until it had accessed more information, "but our insider man got cold feet and kicked us out."
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.