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Fujitsu says it found malware on its corporate network, warns of possible data breach

Getty Images reader comments 11 Japan-based IT behemoth Fujitsu said it has discovered malware on its corporate network that may have allowed the people responsible to steal personal information from customers or other parties. “We confirmed the presence of malware on several of our company’s work computers, and as a result of an internal investigation,… Read More »

23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped

Enlarge / The 23andMe logo displayed on a smartphone screen. reader comments 65 with Genetic profiling service 23andMe has confirmed that private user data is circulating for sale online after being scraped off its website. Friday’s confirmation comes five days after an unknown entity took to an online crime forum to advertise the sale of… Read More »

Security firm Rubrik is latest to be felled by GoAnywhere vulnerability

Getty Images reader comments 5 with Share this story Rubrik, the Silicon Valley data security company, said that it experienced a network intrusion made possible by a zero-day vulnerability in a product it used called GoAnywhere. In an advisory posted on Tuesday, Rubrik CISO Michael Mestrovich said an investigation into the breach found that the… Read More »

First LastPass, now Slack and CircleCI. The hacks go on (and will likely worsen)

reader comments 72 with 0 posters participating Share this story In the past 24 hours, the world has learned of serious breaches hitting chat service Slack and software testing and delivery company CircleCI, though giving the companies’ opaque wording—“security issue” and “security incident,” respectively—you’d be forgiven for thinking these events were minor. The compromises—in Slack’s… Read More »

Kiwi Farms has been breached; assume passwords and emails have been leaked

reader comments 174 with 96 posters participating Share this story The head of Kiwi Farms, the Internet forum best known for organizing harassment campaigns against trans and non-binary people, said the site experienced a breach that allowed hackers to access his administrator account and possibly the accounts of all other users. On the site, creator… Read More »

A white supremacist website got hacked, airing all its dirty laundry

Enlarge / Patriot Front members spray painting in Springfield, Illinois. Unicornriot.ninja reader comments 234 with 122 posters participating, including story author Share this story Chat messages, images, and videos leaked from the server of a white supremacist group called the Patriot Front purport to show its leader and rank-and-file members conspiring in hate crimes, despite… Read More »

Red Cross implores hackers not to leak data for 515k “highly vulnerable people”

reader comments 26 with 23 posters participating Share this story The Red Cross on Wednesday pleaded with the threat actors behind a cyberattack that stole the personal data of about 515,000 people who used a program that works to reunite family members separated by conflict, disaster or migration. “While we don’t know who is responsible… Read More »

Verizon’s Visible cell customers hacked, leading to unauthorized purchases

reader comments 53 with 37 posters participating Share this story Numerous Visible Wireless subscribers are reporting that their accounts were hacked this week. Visible runs on Verizon’s 5G and 4G LTE networks and is owned by Verizon. Suspicions of a data breach at Visible started Monday when some customers saw unauthorized purchases on their accounts: @Visible… Read More »