Vodafone apologised for what it believes is a one-off “technical glitch” A customer has alerted Vodafone to a privacy breach after she was sent the personal details of 18 other customers. On Vodafone’s Facebook page on Tuesday night, the customer said she had received “hundreds” of other people’s accounts and bills along with her own monthly bill. Vodafone spokesman Sam Sinnott confirmed the telco had sent a PDF containing the name, address and phone numbers for 18 customer accounts to the woman along with her e-bill. The company believed...
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OCC: Financial Giant Neglected to Properly Decommission Legacy Equipment Multinational banking giant Morgan Stanley has agreed to a $60 million settlement for a class-action lawsuit to resolve a data exposure incident dating back to 2016. Authorities say personally identifiable information was exposed after Morgan Stanley used a third-party service provider that failed to ensure all personal data was completely removed from IT equipment after two data centers were decommissioned in 2016. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency also stated that in 2019, Morgan Stanley again neglected to retire...
A ransomware operation called Vice Society has claimed credit for attacks that hit two groups of independently owned and operated Spar-branded stores earlier this month. “The gang published more than 93,000 files.” On Dec. 6 via Twitter, Spar reported that for some of its U.K. operations, “there has been an online attack on our IT systems which is affecting stores’ ability to process card payments, meaning that a number of Spar stores are currently closed.” No specific ransomware group was blamed for the attack. But the Vice Society ransomware group on Friday claimed...
The hospital system says they waited months to notify victims of the breach because the Justice Department asked them to. This weekend, the Broward Health hospital system notified more than 1.3 million patients and staff members that their personal information was involved in a data breach that started on October 15. In a statement on Saturday, the Florida hospital system said that in addition to names, addresses and phone numbers, Social Security numbers, bank account information and medical history data was included in the breach. Insurance account information, driver’s...
Portuguese newspaper Expresso hacked by attackers at dawn this Sunday, 2nd January 2022. Those responsible for the invasion are the Lapsus Group, the same team that shut down the Ministry of Health’s systems last December. The newspaper’s website displays a page similar to the one shown in the attack on the Brazilian government agency. hackers announced that they will leak data if they do not receive a value, and said they have control of the portal’s hosting system. In addition to the website, hackers from the Lapsus Group hacked the newspaper Expresso’s...
Someone on Twitter asked me what the first breach of 2022 would be. The following public notice is not the first breach of 2022. It is a 2021 breach that just showed up after midnight in my news search this morning. And because it involves a third-party breach, we may see other covered entities affected, too. DataBreaches.net has reached out to Ciox Health to ask for more details. In the meantime, here is UVA’s public notice: On December 3, 2021, UVA Health, including the UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville...
A cache of sensitive information has been reportedly stolen and leaked by a group of cyber criminals, described by the media as ‘Russian hackers’, from a tech provider working with British law enforcement. The breach took place in October when tech provider Dacoll came under a phishing attack, the Daily Mail on Sunday reported. The IT company is contracted to handle highly-sensitive material, including access to the police national computer (PNC). The cyber-criminal group Clop is believed to have gained access to the PNC data, holding records and personal...
The Prosecutor’s Office of Tirana is investigating the alleged leak of the fiscal data of some 637,138 people employed in Albania including Albanians, foreign residents and EU citizens. Local media report that an Excel file containing the data of 637,138 people is circulating online, mostly through WhatsApp. They have also been published on several media portals. The file contains the names, ID numbers, monthly salaries, positions, and employer names for hundreds of thousands of people. It is believed to have originated from the offices of the Albanian Internal Revenue...
An unknown hacker is selling Microsoft and Office 365 email account credentials of hundreds of C-level executives on an underground forum. There’s no shortage of cybersecurity incidents, as is evident this year. Now, an anonymous hacker is reportedly selling Microsoft and Office 365 account data of hundreds of top executives in leadership roles from countries worldwide. This data includes credentials (usernames and passwords) of executives such as the company president, vice president, chief operating officer (COO), chief financial officer, chief technology officer (CTO), chief marketing officer (CMO), and even the chief executive officer...
The data of Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro was among the personal and health information of 16 million COVID-19 patients in the country that were exposed online. This did not result from a hack, but after a hospital employee shared on GitHub a spreadsheet of access keys various government systems including usernames and passwords. Also included by the leak are 17 provincial governors and seven ministers. While the spreadsheet has already been removed from GitHub, government authorities already revoked access keys and changed their system passwords to avoid further compromise. Brazil...
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