A new regulatory filing disclosed that genetic testing company 23andMe leaked the ancestry information of nearly 7 million users in the October 2023 data breach.
The 1.2 terabyte MOAB file is broken up into over 3,800 folders, each one representing a prior data leak that saw personal information or credentials make their way to the open internet. In total there are over 26 billion records.
Average cost of data breach has once again hit a new record to $4.45 million, up 15.3% just from 2020. Yet only 51% of organizations that have suffered a breach plan to increase security spending.
Have I Been Pwned? (HIPB) has added 244 million freshly stolen passwords compromised via infostealer malware to an already existing list of 199 million, impacting 284 million unique user accounts.
Supply chain security is in the news once again as a cyber attack on Zellis, a UK-based payroll provider, has led to the compromise of numerous organizations. Among the biggest names impacted by the attack are the BBC, British Airways and major UK drugstore chain Boots.
The Chinese hackers were able to dwell for at least several months in 2023 and captured about 5% to 10% of all of the emails sent by the Belgian State Intelligence Service during that time.
Lapsus$ hackers repeatedly accessed T-Mobile's internal systems, including Atlas account management system capable of SIM swapping, and downloaded thousands of source code repositories.
A cyber attack that disrupted international satellite internet and TV provider Viasat is being investigated by a tandem of global intelligence services, with Russia as the lead suspect.
Harrods has disclosed a third-party data breach after cybercriminals claimed to have stolen over 430,000 customer records. The luxury department learned of the breach after the attackers approached the company and demanded a ransom to avoid leaking the stolen data online.
CISA released its customized Log4Shell scanning solution and a list of other third-party scanners. However, all the Log4j scanners tested by Rezilion failed to detect all file formats.
