Category: #DataBreach

Is it any wonder Microsoft is rumored to be launching Windows 11, with the Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report showing the largest uptick since the inception of…

Whether there is a ransom or not, data breaches always have financial implications. Organizations may face regulatory penalties, operational losses, and reputational damage. Careful planning…

McDonald’s is now one of the latest companies to have suffered a third-party data breach. The company says it is not dealing with ransomware, but…

Air India has revealed that a data breach compromised 4.5 million passengers dating back to 2011. Source: https://www.engadget.com/air-india-data-breach-163950054.html Proactive Computing found this story and shared…

Last week, security consultant Bob Diachenko found an unsecured database run by the Etsy-owned music marketplace Reverb. Read more… Source: https://gizmodo.com/etsy-owned-music-sales-site-reverb-hit-with-data-breach-1846789193 Proactive Computing found this…

Casimiro PT/Shutterstock A security flaw allowed “fraudsters” to steal driver’s license numbers from Geico’s online sales system, according to a data breach notice filed with…

The personal data of 533 million Facebook users leaked online. That’s a large percentage of the world’s population, so you should check to see if…

(credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Microsoft Exchange servers compromised in a first round of attacks are getting infected for a second time by a…

Microsoft Defender Antivirus has been updated so that it automatically mitigates CVE-2021-26855 on vulnerable Exchange servers. Source: https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-defender-prevent-exchange-server-exploits-191547916.html Proactive Computing found this story and shared…

Apparently not content with having penetrated the networks of such piddling federal agencies as the U.S. State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and that…

Security researchers reported at least 30,000 organizations across the US have been hacked over the past few days by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber-espionage unit…

Microsoft had a warning for its customers on Tuesday, and it’s boldly calling out the bad actors. According to Microsoft, Chinese hackers are behind Exchange…

The far-right hate platform Gab has been hacked and 70GB of private posts and other data are being made available to journalists and social scientists,…

A ransomware gang claims to have stolen over 100 gigabytes of data from Jones Day, a prominent global law firm that recently stirred backlash for…

Now the Chinese are involved. That’s one of the newest allegations to emerge in the SolarWinds scandal, the supply chain “cyber Pearl Harbor” that seems…

The scope of the SolarWinds hack keeps growing. The New York Times has conducted interviews indicating that the allegedly Russia-backed campaign was much further-reaching than…

As if 2020 weren’t bad enough, some T-Mobile customers are winding down the year with word of a data breach. According to reports from BleepingComputer…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo publicly blamed Russia for the monthslong cyber hack of agencies across the U.S. government. “This was a very significant effort,…

Foreign hackers may be running rampant in the US government. Reuters sources said a group backed by a foreign government stole data from the Treasury…

For the second time in a few months, Spotify has had to reset the passwords for user accounts. This time, Spotify passwords were reset by…

Students in the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) system have suddenly found themselves with an extra day off for the Thanksgiving holiday, but it wasn’t…

Spotify has reportedly begun resetting the passwords of up to 350,000 accounts that were breached as the result of a credential-stuffing attack. A company called…