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Date: 4th October 2021 Severity: High Facebook, WhatsApp & Instagram apps faced a global outage last night and it was mentioned by website monitoring group Downdetector as largest such failure it had ever seen, with more than 10 million problem reports globally. Some of the users were able to connect …
Read More »2 Big eye care providers hit by hackers resulting in Data breach
Date: 21st September 2021 Severity: High Two big Eyecare provider groups were hit by hackers resulting in data breach affecting around 324,000 individuals. Simon Eye become aware about the suspicious activity related to employee email account on 8th June 2021. Basis on the event notice shared by Simon eye, individual’s …
Read More »Man sentenced for 12 years in AT&T ‘Unlocking’ Scheme
Date: 18th September 2021 Severity: High A dual Pakistan & Grenada citizen was sentenced for 12 years in prison for a conspiracy of ‘Unlocking’ that unlocked nearly 2 million AT&T smartphones. Due to this unlawful act, carrier says it resulted in $200 million worth in customer losses. As per Department …
Read More »Hackers access personal data of 79,400 customers of local mobile operator and internet service provider in Singapore
Date: 10th September 2021 Severity: High A local mobile operator & internet service provider confirmed on Friday that it was hit by series of Cyber Attacks in recent month which resulted in unuthorised access to personal data of 79,400 customers. The personal details accessed by hackers included identity verification documents …
Read More »WhatsApp has been fined with a penalty of 225 million Euros for violating European Union Data protection law
Date: 3rd September 2021 Severity: High WhatsApp was penalized with 225 Million Euro fine for not being able to transparently explain on how the personal data of individual is handled. The Irish Data Protection Commission — Silicon Valley’s main privacy watchdog in Europe — said it found violations in the …
Read More »DuPage Medical group was victim of Cyber-attack in mid-July, potentially compromised patients’ information
Date: 30th August 2021 Severity: High The DuPage Medical group have started notifying patients about recent Cyber-attack which might have compromised their personal information like date of birth, diagnosis code & social security numbers. According to recent post by Chicago Tribune, almost 6,00,000 patients shall be notified about the data …
Read More »Accenture hit by ransomware attack with LockBit
CNBC reporter Eamon Javers released a news on Wednesday about an attack on Twitter that a hacker group posted on the Dark Web, “These people are beyond privacy and security. I really hope that their services are better than what I saw as an insider. If you’re interested in buying …
Read More »UK lost $1.8 billion in cyber crime and related fraud in just 6 month time.
National Fraud Intelligence Bureau has just published a report which indicates almost $1.8 billion total financial loss during first 6 months of 2021 due to cyber crime and related fraud. Comparing to the data made available last year, there are more than seven times increase in cyber crimes , rising from …
Read More »Misconfiguration of Amazon AWS Web Services leaves half a million customers exposed
Date: 17th June 2021 Severity: High Nearly half a million of cosmetics customers on Amazon Web Services were in for a shock when a misconfigured cloud storage account exposed their personal data to the hackers. The leak of Amazon’s S3 bucket to popular Turkish beauty products firm, Cosmolog Kozmetik was …
Read More »Trump being used as phishing lure in USAID email by hackers
Date: 28th May 2021 Severity: High In an incident that has left the Washington baffled, Microsoft Vice President Tom Burt announced that about 3000 email accounts across 24 countries at over 150 organizations were targeted in the wave of attacks, including phishing lure in USAID email by hackers using the …
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