Dharma ransomware leads to hospital data breach
A Dharma ransomware outbreak at a Texas hospital may have led to a customer data breach.
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Cathay Pacific announces data breach of passenger data
On Wednesday, October 24th, Cathay Pacific disclosed a data breach of passenger personal data of 9.4 million customers:
Pentagon cyber breach
The Pentagon announced on Friday there has been a cyber breach of Defense Department travel records that includes the compromise of personal information and payment card data from U.S. military and civilian personnel.
Facebook provides security update on breach that impacted 30M users
The company downgraded the user impact to 30 million users from 50 million users and also shared the details of the attacks that exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that existed between July 2017 and September 2018.
Attackers exploit Facebook code that impacts 50 million accounts
Facebook posted a security update that describes a security issue that occurred on September 25, 2018 that affected nearly 50 million accounts.
MageCart compromises Feedify
Magecart cyber criminal group has been targeting numerous eCommerce sites since 2015, to include Ticketmaster and British Airways.
British Airways data breach update
British Airways provided an update to a previously disclosed data breach. The incident occurred between August 21, 2018 and September 5, 2018 on their website, ba.com and mobile app.
Hacker breaks into Reddit systems via SMS-based 2FA
Reddit, a popular social news aggregation and discussion website, suffered from a security breach between June 14 and June 18 of this year. The incident was discovered on June 19 and linked to weaknesses in SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA).
Single account blamed for Clarksons breach
Clarkson PLC (“Clarksons”), a British shipping company, recently revealed a single and isolated user account compromise was the cause of a data breach and theft of confidential information last year.
Linux distribution hosted on GitHub was hacked
A popular Linux distribution, Gentoo, said its source code hosted on GitHub was compromised.