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Hacker leaks personal information of Chinese officials and industry leaders
When you try to control the Internet, the Internet sometimes bites back. The Chinese government suffered a large data breach, as the personal information of Chinese Communist Party officials, and several industry leaders, were exposed and posted to Twitter. While the account that posted the data has been frozen, a vast amount of information was ...
Hospital suffers data breach as employee steals over the course of seven years
Sometimes a data breach can be a quick strike and resolution, other times it’s a long game. In the case of UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital, an employee was accessing files without authorization over the course of about seven years, taking in names, health insurance information, and in some cases Social Security numbers. The Theft The data breach ...
Multiple banks struck by Turkish hackers
More banks are under cyber attack, with five South Asian banks suffering a data breach. Turkish hacking group Bozkurtlar (translated to “Grey Wolves”) has taken credit for the attack, following its recent attacks on the Qatar National Bank and UAE’s InvestBank. The new victims, according to Data Breach Today, are located in Bangladesh and Nepal. ...
US House of Representatives fortifies its defenses against ransomware threat
What do politics and cyber security have in common? They can be a pain to deal with, but ignoring them will have disastrous consequences. Well, the House of Representatives should make sure to not ignore their cyber security, as ransomware attacks have been on the upswing, and have been targeting representatives through third-party mail applications. ...
Parents beware: Data breach at Kiddicare
The life of a new parent can be rough, between the minimal sleep, the need to constantly keep an eye on the child, the constant barrage of often-contradictory parenting advice, and the data breaches. Actually, that last one wasn’t a problem until recently, but following a hack and data breach of the Kiddicare Ltd. website, ...
Charles Schwab customers learn what happens when you repeat a password
If you have investments saved in a Charles Schwab account, keep an eye out for contact from the bank soon. A recent data breach has seen unauthorized login activity on several accounts, but the interesting part is, it’s not Charles Schwab that suffered the breach. In recent days, SC Magazine reports, the company noticed unusual ...
200 million emails compromised: Is yours on the list?
A massive hack has resulted in the theft of usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites, which are now on sale in Russia. This includes users of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft emails, as well as Russia’s Mail.ru service, and stands as one of the largest credential thefts since cyber attacks could even exist. ...
Gumtree hack loses customer info, no passwords stolen
There’s no denying that people aren’t fond of advertisements, but that doesn’t justify a cyber attack on ad-posting websites. Still, that didn’t stop hackers from hitting the website Gumtree, and taking the email addresses, names, and phone numbers of several of its Australian customers. The details of the hack have not been disclosed, nor do ...
SWIFT reports Bangladesh bank breach is one of many
Following the massive hack in the central bank of Bangladesh, which was made possible by vulnerabilities in SWIFT software, SWIFT has now admitted that this is not the first time the platform has been compromised. SWIFT, which stands for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, is a cooperative of thousands of organizations. The SWIFT messaging ...
Goldcorp gets mined in massive data breach
A group of hackers think they may have struck gold when they went after Goldcorp, a gold-mining firm in Vancouver. The metaphorical riches plundered come in the form of company and employee information, making up around 14.8 GB worth of data, including banking information, payroll information, and even employee passport scans. The Daily Dot reports the ...