A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of records that companies use for screening potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime. The hackers, which call themselves GhostR, said they stole 5.3 million records from the World-Check screening database in March and are threatening to publish …
A hacker group offered to sell data with confidential information allegedly stolen from Israel’s Defense Ministry computers. Security sources confirmed to Israel Hayom daily on Tuesday that there had been indeed a breach into the ministry’s computers. The hacker group that made the claims on Telegram asserted that it had successfully accessed data from the …
Mobile gadget and bag maker Targus says it is experiencing a “temporary interruption” to its business operations following a cyberattack on Friday. In a notice with regulators on Monday, Targus’ parent company, B. Riley Financial, said it discovered “a threat actor gained unauthorized access to certain of Targus’ file systems,” and shut down much of …
AT&T says 7.6 million current customers were affected by a recent leak in which sensitive data was released on the dark web, along with 65.4 million former account holders. TechCrunch first reported on Saturday morning that the company has reset the passcodes of all affected active accounts, and AT&T confirmed the move in an update …
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Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox web browser, announced a new subscription service that upgrades its ‘Monitor’ data breach notification service to help automatically remove personal data from broker sites. Along with existing data breach notifications, the new Mozilla Monitor Plus subscription will allow Monitor to regularly scan for exposed personal information online and start …
Major apparel supplier VF Corp followed up on its December cyberattack disclosure, with its latest Securities and Exchange Commission form admitting to a data breach impacting up to 35.5 million customers. That means if you’ve purchased from its major brands like Vans, North Face, Timberland, Dickies and more, you may have been impacted. But VF …
Comcast Comcast, alongside several other big corporations, has recently suffered a devastating data breach. According to reports, it’s possible that hackers got their hands on the data of up to 36 million Comcast Xfinity customers, meaning the company’s cable television and internet department. Although the company is pretty tight-lipped about it, the data breach occurred …
Genetic testing company 23andMe disclosed an incident in October where hackers stole some users’ data. Now, the company has announced that cyberattackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the recent data breach. In a new filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission(seen by TechCrunch), 23andMe said that it has probed into the incident.Based on …
An has revealed more details on that was disclosed earlier this fall. The company says its investigation found hackers were able to access information from 0.1 percent of its userbase, or the accounts of about 14,000 of its 14 million total customers, notes. On top of that, the attackers were able to exploit 23andMe’s opt-in …