Tesla, owned by Elon Musk, confirms that a data breach impacting over 75,000 employees was the result of insider misconduct. The electric car maker states that the breach was initiated by two former employees who leaked personal information of more than 75,000 individuals to a foreign media outlet.The breach encompassed personally identifiable details such as […]
A compiation of many breaches with 3.2 billion email-and-password pairs was posted online with existing data that had been stolen as part of previous breaches and leaks from companies like Netflix and LinkedIn. Read more about this topic: https://bgr.com/2021/02/05/data-breach-email-and-passwords-leaked-compilation-of-many-breaches/
The chance that identity fraud can be committed with the personal data, such as address details, telephone numbers and citizen service numbers (bsn), which have been stolen in the Netherlands from the corona systems of the Municipal Health Service (GGD), is small according to the National Service for Identity Data (RvIG). How do you estimate […]
Düsseldorf University Hospital has become infected with ransomware through a known vulnerability in Citrix. The disrupted systems caused that the hospital could no longer receive ambulances, among other things. The Ministry of Justice of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia released a message yesterday that a patient had died as a result of the ransomware […]
According to researchers at the American Ponemon Institute, cyber attacks are the leading cause of data leaks, followed by technical defects, configuration errors in the cloud and human error. The “Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020” study conducted by IBM among 3,200 people from 524 organizations shows that the average cost per leaked or […]
A desk clerk had difficulty logging into the hospital information system and asked aloud “How do I log in?” To a colleague who also had a patient in front of the splash screen.Then the login code and then the password were loud and audible for everyone. In hospitals people are notoriously careless, careless and thoughtless […]
Yesterday Uber’s former security chief Joe Sullivan was charged with attempting to conceal a hack from federal investigators. This hack exposed the email addresses and phone numbers of 57 million drivers and passengers. As a result the former CISO could face up to eight years in prison for not promptly disclosing to the employee and […]
Microsoft has been sued by Frank Russo, Koonan Litigation Consulting and Sumner Davenport & Associates.They say this is on behalf of all Office 365 users as they allegedly share Office 365 business users’ user data with Facebook. This information would have been shared with Facebook’s app developers, as well as Microsoft’s partners and suppliers. If […]
The Consumers’ Association and the Data Privacy Foundation “Data Privacy Stichting (DPS)”. Have joined forces to force Facebook to pay compensation via a subpoena. The Consumers’ Association calls on consumers to join the campaign. Facebook is accused of collecting private data from its users and their Facebook friends for years and making this data accessible […]
Encro’s servers running in France were hacked thanks to the special knowledge of the Dutch Team High Tech Crime.This allowed detectives to read about all the criminal activities planned in the Netherlands and far beyond. EncroChat has discontinued its services as a provider of encrypted communication. The company supplied crypto phones internationally that allowed users […]