5 linked to cyber espionage ring arrested in Türkiye

Authorities arrested five people on cyber espionage charges through a software system uncovered thanks to information from the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), Turkish media reported Monday. An investigation led by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in the capital, Ankara, discovered Read More …

TalkTalk investigating data breach after hacker claims theft of customer data

U.K. telecoms giant TalkTalk has confirmed that it is investigating a data breach after a hacker claimed to have stolen the personal information of millions of customers. In a post on a popular cybercrime forum seen by TechCrunch, an individual Read More …

eCommerce data breach exposes details on half a million users

The North Pole Company, a Canadian gift basket delivery service, allegedly suffered a data breach in which half a million customers lost sensitive personal information. The claim was made on BreachForums, a popular underground community where cybercriminals come to share Read More …

HPE’s sensitive data exposed in alleged IntelBroker hack

IntelBroker has struck again. This time, the notorious BreachForums bigwig, which has a long list of high-profile victims, including Europol, Cisco, and GE, has claimed to have breached IT giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The suspected Serbian-origin hacker is offering Read More …

UK: Personal data stolen in cyber-attack on council

Gateshead Council said it is not known how many residents have been affected by the attack, which happened in the early hours of 8 January. Officials at the authority have advised people to watch out for phishing emails or fraudulent Read More …

UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months

Change Healthcare, the UnitedHealth-owned health tech company that lost more than 100 million people’s sensitive health data in a ransomware attack last year, said on Tuesday that the company has “substantially” completed notifying affected individuals about the massive data breach. Read More …

Millions of Vinted, Spotify and Tinder users’ data could be compromised in global hack

Millions of users of popular apps such as Vinted, Spotify, Candy Crush and Tinder may have had their sensitive location data stolen by an unknown hacker who has posted details on a Russian-language site popular with cyber-criminals. In what is Read More …

US state sues T-Mobile over 2021 data breach which leaked data of millions

As part of Washington’s lawsuit, the state claims T-Mobile failed to ‘adequately secure sensitive personal information of more than 2 million Washingtonians’. This failure, the state claims, left those consumers vulnerable to fraud and identity theft. The suit claims that Read More …

Italian digital identity provider suffers data breach, 5.5M customers affected

InfoCert has had millions of its customers’ personal data stolen and put up for sale. A leading European certification authority and provider of digital identity services such as Italy’s SPID (Public Digital Identity System), InfoCert posted a public notice on Read More …