Tag: Data Breach

  • News for August 5, 2022

    Twitter Data Breachby Artie Kaye A bug that was patched at the start of 2022 by Twitter was exploited before it was fixed.  Approximate 5.4 million users’ information was obtained from the attack.  The harvested data can be used to link accounts to email addresses or phone numbers.  No passwords were stolen according to Twitter. …

  • News Week Ending July 31, 2022

    Almost All Business Infrastructure Compromisedby Artie Kaye Security firm Barracuda surveyed the IT heads of 800 organizations with more than 500 employees.  94% of those surveyed were attacked.  87% had their operations influenced for a day or more.  Things like lack of multi factor authentication (MFA,) manual security updates, and weak network security in general…

  • News Week Ending April 3, 2022

    Lapsus$ hacks Microsoftby Artie Kaye Microsoft was hacked by Lapsus$.  Instead of using software or ransomware, Lapsus$ has been using social networking, relying on people within the company to gain access to their networks.  This has been a common and effective method of gaining access to networks for decades.  Microsoft says that no personal data…

  • News Week Ending March 20, 2022

    Lapsus$ Hacks Samsung by Artie Kaye Samsung confirmed on March 7th that they had been hacked.  The hackers copied information from their servers related to the Galaxy system code.  Samsung states that no personal data was copied.  Ransoming the data is what normally happens after attacks like this, but all 190 gigs were posted online for…

  • News Week Ending February 20, 2022

    49ers Ransomware Attackby Artie Kaye BlackByte, a ransomware organization, took credit for a recent attack on the corporate servers for the San Francisco 49er’s football team. The 49er’s staff are working with law enforcement and cybersecurity professionals.  It is not believed that public information was copied, and that the data was all related to the…