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Russia has started restricting some Telegram and WhatsApp calls, accusing the foreign-owned platforms of failing to share information with law enforcement in fraud and terrorism cases, the digital development ministry said on Wednesday. The blocking measures, which extend only to Read More …
WestJet says some personal data including information about travel documents such as passports was stolen in a cyberattack earlier this year, but credit and debit card numbers as well as user passwords were not compromised. In a note to customers, Read More …
French telco giatn Bouygues Telecom has confirmed suffering a cyberattack in which it lost sensitive customer data. In a short announcement published on its website, the company said it detected the attack on August 4, and following an investigation, determined Read More …
Cybercriminals known as ShinyHunters (UNC6040) recently broke into Google and stole business customer information from one of its corporate Salesforce instances, the company has confirmed. In a blog post breaking down ShinyHunters’ modus operandi, the company somewhat played down the Read More …
A cybercriminal tricked a Cisco representative into granting them access to steal the personal information of Cisco.com users, the company said on Tuesday. Cisco said it discovered the breach on July 24, blaming the incident on a voice phishing or Read More …
Central Maine Healthcare says an unauthorized party gained access to its network on March 19th, and they kept that access until June 1st. After a weeks-long shut down of phone and online services, Central Maine Healthcare officials say patient data Read More …
U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, financial professionals, and employees during a mid-July data breach. When reached by TechCrunch, Allianz Life spokesperson Brett Weinberg confirmed Read More …
Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images. That number includes 13,000 selfies and photo IDs submitted Read More …
An enormous database, containing millions of highly sensitive information on Swedish citizens, was sitting on the open internet, available for anyone who knew where to look. Cybernews researchers recently uncovered a misconfigured Elasticsearch server which they described as a “goldmine Read More …
French luxury brand Louis Vuitton recently reported a data breach affecting nearly 420,000 customers in Hong Kong, according to a Sunday report by a local newspaper. According to Xianggang Wenweipo, Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Read More …
