Latest Security Breach news

Okta: Lapsus$ breach lasted only 25 minutes, hit 2 customers

Identity and access management firm Okta says an investigation into the January Lapsus$ breach concluded the incident's impact was significantly smaller than expected.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 20, 2022
- 12:48 PM
- 1
GitHub notifies owners of private repos stolen using OAuth tokens

GitHub says it notified all organizations believed to have had data stolen from their private repositories by attackers abusing compromised OAuth user tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 19, 2022
- 12:55 PM
- 0
FTC to fine CafePress for cover up of massive data breach

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants to slap the former owner of the CafePress custom t-shirt and merchandise site with a $500,000 fine for failing to secure its users' data and attempting to cover up a significant data breach impacting millions.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 15, 2022
- 02:25 PM
- 0
SEC wants public companies to report breaches within four days

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed rule amendments to require publicly traded companies to report data breaches and other cybersecurity incidents within four days after they're determined as being a material incident (one that shareholders would likely consider important).
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 10, 2022
- 01:03 PM
- 2
UScellular discloses data breach after billing system hack

UScellular, self-described as the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the US, has disclosed a data breach after the company's billing system was hacked in December 2021.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 04, 2022
- 12:07 PM
- 0
Panasonic discloses data breach after network hack

Japanese multinational conglomerate Panasonic disclosed a security breach after unknown threat actors gained access to servers on its network this month.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 29, 2021
- 09:40 AM
- 0
Republican Governors Association email server breached by state hackers

The Republican Governors Association (RGA) revealed in data breach notification letters sent last week that its servers were breached during an extensive Microsoft Exchange hacking campaign that hit organizations worldwide in March 2021.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 20, 2021
- 09:43 AM
- 0
Autodesk reveals it was targeted by Russian SolarWinds hackers

Autodesk has confirmed that it was also targeted by the Russian state hackers behind the large-scale SolarWinds Orion supply-chain attack, almost nine months after discovering that one of its servers was backdoored with Sunburst malware.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 02, 2021
- 07:30 AM
- 0
T-Mobile CEO: Hacker brute-forced his way through our network

Today, T-Mobile's CEO Mike Sievert said that the hacker behind the carrier's latest massive data breach brute forced his way through T-Mobile's network after gaining access to testing environments.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 27, 2021
- 12:51 PM
- 5
Biden: Severe cyberattacks could escalate to 'real shooting war'

President Joe Biden warned that cyberattacks leading to severe security breaches could lead to a "real shooting war" with another major world power.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 28, 2021
- 12:23 PM
- 1
Carnival Cruise hit by data breach, warns of data misuse risk

Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise ship operator, has disclosed a data breach after attackers breached some email accounts and accessed personal, financial, and health information belonging to customers, employees, and crew.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 17, 2021
- 12:15 PM
- 1
McDonald's discloses data breach after theft of customer, employee info

McDonald's, the largest fast-food chain globally, has disclosed a data breach after hackers breached its systems and stole information belonging to customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 11, 2021
- 12:45 PM
- 1
Hackers breach gaming giant Electronic Arts, steal game source code

Gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) has been hacked and threat actors claim to have stolen roughly 750 GB of data, including game source code and debug tools.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 10, 2021
- 12:59 PM
- 3
US truck and military vehicle maker Navistar discloses data breach

Navistar International Corporation (Navistar), a US-based maker of trucks and military vehicles, says that unknown attackers have stolen data from its network following a cybersecurity incident discovered at the end of last month.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 07, 2021
- 12:47 PM
- 0
First Horizon bank online accounts hacked to steal customers’ funds

Bank holding company First Horizon Corporation disclosed the some of its customers had their online banking accounts breached by unknown attackers earlier this month.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 30, 2021
- 04:04 PM
- 1
Ubiquiti confirms extortion attempt following security breach

Networking device maker Ubiquiti has confirmed that it was the target of an extortion attempt following a January security breach, as revealed by a whistleblower earlier this week.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 01, 2021
- 09:31 AM
- 0
Mimecast: SolarWinds hackers stole some of our source code

Email security company Mimecast has confirmed today that the state-sponsored SolarWinds hackers who breached its network earlier this year used the Sunburst backdoor during the initial intrusion.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 16, 2021
- 12:53 PM
- 0
World's leading dairy group Lactalis hit by cyberattack

Lactalis, the world's leading dairy group, has disclosed a cyberattack after unknown threat actors have breached some of the company's systems.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 01, 2021
- 02:29 PM
- 1
US Coast Guard orders maritime facilities to report SolarWinds breaches

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has ordered MTSA-regulated facilities and vessels using SolarWinds software for critical functions to report security breaches in case of suspicions of being affected by the SolarWinds supply-chain attack.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 10, 2021
- 03:47 PM
- 0
Mimecast links security breach to SolarWinds hackers

Email security company Mimecast has confirmed today that the threat actor behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attack is behind the security breach it disclosed earlier this month.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 26, 2021
- 10:01 AM
- 0