Tag: data breach
GoDaddy Discloses Security Breach; Data of 1.2 Mn WordPress Users Exposed
GoDaddy, a domain name registrar and web hosting company, disclosed a data breach incident which exposed the data of 1.2 million customers.
A disclosure published...
Costco Store Payment Terminal Breached by Data Skimmer
Costco Wholesale Corporation, a big-box retail store company, discovered a breach at one of its retail store terminals where a card skimming device was...
Stolen Access Key Exposes Customer Data Stored in the Aruba Central...
HPE-owned Aruba has disclosed that an access key to the data repositories for their Aruba Central network monitoring platform was compromised, allowing an unauthorized...
Robinhood Hack Exposes Shortcomings of the Human Firewall in Cybersecurity
Robinhood, a commission-free, U.S.-based trading app, joins the list of ransomware victims. On November 3, 2021, the trading platform experienced a phishing attack in...
How U.S. Defense Contractor Electronic Warfare Associates Fell Prey to Phishing
A U.S. government defense contractor, Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), was a victim of a data breach due to an email phishing incident. Per a...
Desorden Hacks Acer’s India and Taiwan Servers; 60GB Customer Data Stolen
Computer manufacturer Acer suffered two security incidents on its servers in Taiwan and India in less than a week. Threat actor group Desorden reportedly announced that...
Cox Media Group Validates Ransomware Attack that Pulled Down its Broadcasts
On June 3, 2021, American media company Cox Media Group (CMG) experienced a cyberattack in which the malicious threat actor encrypted the network servers...
Superhero Passwords Become Kryptonite: Mozilla Warns
The significance of keeping strong passwords while talking about data privacy and security cannot be ignored. Despite several awareness campaigns, many people still reuse...
Real Cloud Security Means Less Talk, More Action
Cloud security is still a major problem, despite all the conversations about it and the very clear threats enterprises face today. In fact, the...
New Zealand Banks and Postal Service Under DDoS Attack
It seems like New Zealand is becoming a new cyberthreat landscape with regular security incidents. Months after a cyberattack on the New Zealand reserve...