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 […]
The Citrix leak, which occurred in late December 2019 and led to a major crisis in organizations, is still being actively exploited. While attention for the vulnerability has faded, criminal hackers and espionage groups appear to have access to the internal network at at least 25 Dutch organizations and 2000 international organizations, according to Fox-IT. […]
A pensioner from Voorburg lost his entire pension, after ING seemed to call him to warn him of theft and to secure his money in his account. In the chat trick, the fake ING employee indicated from a spoofed ING existing number that his account was being emptied by people from the Ukraine and had […]
Backup with hundreds of thousands of customer data Allianz stolen. The stolen data of 260,000 Dutch customers was stored in a safe at an external location. Read more on this topic at: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/09/20/back-up-met-gegevens-honderdduizenden-klanten-allianz-gestolen-a3974055
In 2018, about 21,000 data leaks were reported to the AP. More than double compared to 2017, when it was still 10,000 reported data leaks. The regulator will expand the capacity as this exceeds the predetermined estimate. Most of the data breaches reported, 63 percent, concerned personal data sent to the wrong recipient. This concerns, […]
The popular payment app Tikkie offers the possibility to transfer money to other Tikkie users based on their 06 number. This made it possible to trace the IBAN numbers of many unsuspecting Tikkie users, with the risk of identity fraud and phishing. This is shown by research by RTL Nieuws. ABN Amro confirms the vulnerability […]
216 Accountants, KPMG’s former SME practice, has been hit by a data breach. Due to the leak, customer and personal data of customers of the company were temporarily visible to all customers. The email sent to affected customers shows that the company switched to a new customer portal on December 1. The supplier PinkWeb has […]
Attackers managed to break into 32,000 RTL accounts by means of reused passwords, the company told let her own news site know. Private data of users of various RTL services such as Videoland, Buienradar and RTL Nieuws have been approached. This includes name, e-mail address and address details. The attackers used e-mail addresses and passwords […]
Attackers were able to exploit a vulnerability in the “view as” feature, which allows users to see how their profile looks like to someone else. The vulnerability caused by three different bugs allowed the attackers to illegally obtain access tokens, thus could have taken over users’ accounts. Users remain logged in to Facebook via an […]