Several independently owned restaurants in the Quaker Steak & Lube chain announced their retail point-of-sale terminals were remotely accessed and infected with malware that captured customer payment…
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Incident Of The Week: Leak Discloses UN Data Breach From 2019
Hackers broke into dozens of United Nations (UN) servers in July of last year, and UN officials kept quiet about it. The worst part? PII was stolen and employees were kept in the dark. Cyber Security…
Incident Of The Week: Misconfigured Servers Result In 250 Million Microsoft Cust…
A misconfiguration applied to five Elasticsearch database servers in December 2019 led to the exposure of 250 million customer support records for software maker Microsoft. How should less sophisticat…
Incident Of The Week: Zynga Security Breach Affects 170 Million User Accounts
Mobile game developer Zynga disclosed unauthorized access to 170 million user records. With personal data at stake, an openness and level of transparency is needed by businesses when communicating wit…
Incident Of The Week: Ransomware Hits Currency Dealer Travelex
A New Year’s Eve ransomware attack on currency dealer and forex services provider Travelex impacted customers and financial partners. The cyber-attack is the latest along with the City of New Orleans…