Data Breaches GDPR Security

Vodafone Spain almost 4 million Euros GDPR fine for loss of confidentiality related to mobile phone sim card duplicate and a lack of accountability

“Various claims are filed as a result of the issuance of duplicate SIM cards to third parties other than subscribers. As a result of the above, the holders of the telephone line are not only left without service, but the third parties access their bank accounts.” “Spanish DPA carries out research actions to analyze the […]

Data Breaches Multifactor Authentication Password Management Security

Criminals hijack 1.1 million accounts via reused passwords

Criminals have managed to hijack 1.1 million accounts at 17 companies by means of reused passwords, says New York Attorney General Letitia James. According to James, the accounts could be taken over through credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing uses previously leaked email addresses and passwords to gain automated access to accounts. Attackers check whether they […]

Data Breaches Hack Malware Network Security Password Management Ransomware Security VPN

Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts

A hacker released almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer. While many appliances with the exploited Fortinet vulnerability have since been patched, many VPN credentials seem still to be valid. With these VPN credentials access to a network can be gained to perform data exfiltration, install […]

Data Breaches GDPR Hack Security

How T-Mobile, with of 40 million users affected by the databreach, was hacked?

According to the CEO the bad actor leveraged their knowledge of technical systems, along with specialized tools and capabilities, to gain access to our testing environments and then used brute force attacks and other methods to make their way into other IT servers that included customer data.”Compromised information includes customer names, addresses, Social Security numbers […]