US military personnel were warned against turning on unsolicited smartwatches mailed to service members that auto-connect to Wi-Fi and smartphones, potentially collecting sensitive information.
A breach of a third party vendor used by some airlines to process pilot job applications has exposed at least 8,700 records, according to data breach disclosures made by American and Southwest Airlines. The impacted airlines have said that they have cut ties with the third party vendor.
Snack giant Mondelēz International has suffered a third-party law firm data breach from its legal services provider, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, leaking sensitive personal information of over 50,000 current and former employees.
Australia has been experiencing unusually serious problems with data breaches for nearly a year now. HWL Ebsworth, one of the country's most prominent law firms, appears to have had a huge amount of client information stolen by ALPHV/BlackCat.
BlackCat ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the Reddit hack and threatened to leak 80GB of information stolen during the Feb 2023 data breach and claims to have obtained damaging information capable of destroying the company’s reputation.
One of the world's largest adtech companies is facing a €40 million GDPR fine over failure to collect proper consent for personal information processing. Criteo's targeted advertising program was also cited for transparency and right of access shortcomings.
UPS Canada has disclosed an extended data breach from February 2022 to April 2023. Attackers were able to access customer shipping information that should have been private, and are believed to have used some of it in an SMS phishing campaign.
The Clop ransomware group may well be the next in law enforcement crosshairs, as the US Department of State has authorized a $10 million bounty on information about the group under its "Reward for Justice" program.
Oregon DMV and Louisiana OMV were impacted by the MOVEit cyber attack exposing sensitive information of virtually all the states’ ID and driver’s license holders.
A joint advisory detailing LockBit ransomware’s tactics and mitigations disclosed that the cybercrime gang extorted $91 million from US companies since 2020 after 1,700 attacks.
