Tag Archives: Data breaches

Suspect arrested in Snowflake data-theft attacks affecting millions

Attack Path UNC5537 has used in attacks against as many as 165 Snowflake customers. Credit: Mandiant Attack Path UNC5537 has used in attacks against as many as 165 Snowflake customers. Credit: Mandiant None of the affected accounts used multifactor authentication, which requires users to provide a one-time password or additional means of authentication besides a… Read More »

Rite Aid says breach exposes sensitive details of 2.2 million customers

Enlarge / Rite Aid logo displayed at one of its stores. Getty Images reader comments 66 Rite Aid, the third biggest US drug store chain, said that more than 2.2 million of its customers have been swept into a data breach that stole personal information, including driver’s license numbers, addresses, and dates of birth. The… Read More »

Hackers steal “significant volume” of data from hundreds of Snowflake customers

Getty Images reader comments 14 As many as 165 customers of cloud storage provider Snowflake have been compromised by a group that obtained login credentials through information-stealing malware, researchers said Monday. On Friday, Lending Tree subsidiary QuoteWizard confirmed it was among the customers notified by Snowflake that it was affected in the incident. Lending Tree… Read More »

Ticketmaster hacked in what’s believed to be a spree hitting Snowflake customers

Getty Images reader comments 29 Cloud storage provider Snowflake said that accounts belonging to multiple customers have been hacked after threat actors obtained credentials through info-stealing malware or by purchasing them on online crime forums. Ticketmaster parent Live Nation—which disclosed Friday that hackers gained access to data it stored through an unnamed third-party provider—told TechCrunch… Read More »

AT&T: Data breach affects 73 million or 51 million customers. No, we won’t explain.

Getty Images reader comments 53 AT&T is notifying millions of current or former customers that their account data has been compromised and published last month on the dark web. Just how many millions, the company isn’t saying. In a mandatory filing with the Maine Attorney General’s office, the telecommunications company said 51.2 million account holders… Read More »

Conservative News Corp. empire says hackers were inside its network for 2 years

Enlarge / Entrance to Fox News headquarters at NewsCorp Building in New York. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) Getty Images reader comments 54 with Share this story News Corp., the parent company of The Wall Street Journal and several other news outlets, said that hackers were inside its network for nearly two years… Read More »

Big data trove dumped after LA Unified School District says no to ransomware crooks

reader comments 73 with 53 posters participating Share this story A ransomware outfit calling itself Vice Society has dumped nearly 300,000 files belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District as punishment for rebuffing demands it pay the group a hefty fee to recover data stolen during a recent cyber intrusion. Ransomware operators breach targets’… Read More »

Hackers who breached T-Mobile stole personal data for ~49 million accounts

Getty Images reader comments 23 with 20 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile on Wednesday said criminals obtained the personal information of almost 49 million current, former, or prospective customers in the latest mega-hack of its servers. The haul includes customers’ first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/ID information for 7.8… Read More »

Morgan Stanley discloses data breach that resulted from Accellion FTA hacks

reader comments 14 with 11 posters participating Share this story Morgan Stanley suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive customer data, and it became the latest known casualty of hackers exploiting a series of now-patched vulnerabilities in Accellion FTA, a widely used third-party file-transfer service. The data obtained included names, addresses dates of birth, social… Read More »

EA source code stolen by hacker claiming to sell it online

reader comments 65 with 54 posters participating Share this story Game-maker Electronic Arts and the Presque Isle Police Department in Maine are responding to an event they had both been dreading: the theft of gigabytes of private data by hackers who breached their Internet-connected networks. In EA’s case, the theft included 780GB of source code… Read More »