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Hotel chain Shangri-La Group has admitted to its systems being attacked, and personal data describing guests accessed by unknown parties, over a timeframe that includes the dates on which a high-level international defence conference was staged at one of its Read More …
Optus confirmed yesterday that 2.1 million customers had government identification numbers compromised during a cyberattack last month. In a press statement released yesterday, the mobile carrier updated the information regarding the personal data of 9.8 million customers exposed during the Read More …
May 19, 2021 was supposed to be just another day at the end of the school year at Sierra College, a community college in Rocklin, California. Instead, hackers hit the school with ransomware, throwing it into chaos. “We are experiencing Read More …
Thousands of files apparently stolen last month in a ransomware attack on the Los Angeles Unified School District were released on the dark web over the weekend. The threat has been a major concern for the nation’s second-largest school district Read More …
Russian retail chain ‘DNS’ (Digital Network System) disclosed yesterday that they suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of customers and employees. DNS is Russia’s second-largest computer and home appliance store chain, with 2,000 branches and 35,000 employees. Read More …
The Data Access Agreement (DAA), by which the US and UK have agreed how one country can respond to lawful data demands from police and investigators in the other, took effect on Monday. The DAA (aka the Access to Electronic Read More …
The personal mobile phone numbers of the Prime Minister and 25 of her Cabinet Ministers are being sold on the internet, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. They can be accessed on a shady US website charging just £6.49 for Read More …
Australian authorities have asked the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to assist with investigations into the data breach at local telco Optus. Attorney general Mark Dreyfus yesterday revealed the FBI was asked to help identify the entities involved Read More …
Elbit Systems of America, the U.S. arm of Israeli defense contractor Elbit, says its network was compromised in early June and personal information of employees was stolen. In a breach notification filed with the Maine attorney general’s office, Elbit Systems Read More …
The connectivity that we’ve experienced of late has improved at an unprecedented speed and scale largely because application programming interfaces (APIs) enable the seamless integration of different systems from different entities. APIs integrate data and services between businesses and third-party Read More …
