Sony confirms cyber-attack exposed details of nearly 7000 current and former employees

Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed the personal information of 6,791 former and current employees was exposed as part of a cyber-attack in June. According to a report the data breach was carried out by the Clop ransomware group. Sony is Read More …

A Ransomware Group Is Claiming They’ve Breached Sony’s Systems And Stolen Data

Although the claims of a data breach are still unverified, Sony has publicly acknowledged the situation and issued a statement to IGN which simply reads, “We are currently investigating the situation, and we have no further comment at this time.” Read More …

Data breaches putting domestic abuse victims’ lives at risk, says UK watchdog

Councils, police forces and hospitals are putting women’s lives at risk by accidentally disclosing domestic abuse victims’ addresses to perpetrators, the UK’s information watchdog has said. John Edwards, the information commissioner, who has reprimanded seven organisations in just over a Read More …

Hackers break into Russian database with data on hundreds of millions of flights

Ukrainian hackers have hacked into the Russian database of the Sirena-Travel booking system, obtaining information on 664 million flights over the last 16 years. They also obtained the names, phone numbers and document numbers of the passengers. News of this Read More …

One of the largest T-Mobile authorized retailers had 90GB of info leaked, including customer data

T-Mobile is often in the news for the wrong reasons. Yesterday, a glitch in the company’s system showed personal customer information to the wrong account holders. And now, there is fear that freshly leaked data that is available online could Read More …

Air Canada releases statement after brief cyber attack

Air Canada appears to have been the victim of a cyber attack after the company released a statement regarding the incident on September 21st. According to the statement, an authorized group gained what the company describes as “limited” access to Read More …

Australia: Pizza Hut says customer data breached in cyber hack

The personal details of pizza lovers across Australia have been compromised in a cyber attack on Pizza Hut. The popular fast-food chain, with 251 restaurants across the country, revealed it had been hacked in an email to customers on Wednesday. Read More …

HWL Ebsworth hack: 65 Australian government agencies affected by cyber-attack

Sixty-five Australian government departments and agencies were victims of the cyber-attack on legal firm HWL Ebsworth, the national cybersecurity coordinator has revealed. In a speech on Monday, Air Marshal Darren Goldie also revealed that some people and clients with personal information Read More …

UK: Greater Manchester Police officers’ details hacked in cyber attack

Police officers’ personal details have been hacked after a company was targeted in a cyber attack. The firm in Stockport, which makes ID cards, holds information on various UK organisations including some of the staff employed by Greater Manchester Police Read More …

Apple fixes zero-day bugs used to plant Pegasus spyware

Apple released security updates on Thursday that patch two zero-day exploits — meaning hacking techniques that were unknown at the time Apple found out about them — used against a member of a civil society organization in Washington, D.C., according Read More …