Vilius Petkauskas

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American college spills half a million files with personal data

2 days ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Bank Street College of Education, a New York-based private school, exposed hundreds of thousands of files with personal data, including home addresses and phone numbers. An exposed Amazon AWS bucket revealed personal details of hundreds of thousands of people, the Cybernews research team discovered. According to the team, the exposed instance belongs to the Bank Street College of Education, a prominent century-old private school and graduate school.
DoppelPaymer suspect arrested for €4.5 million research agency hack

2 days ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

A 45-year-old foreign national was arrested in Moldova, suspected of numerous cybercrimes against companies in the Netherlands. Moldovan law enforcement authorities arrested the man on May 6th, in cooperation with colleagues from the Netherlands. The suspect was allegedly involved in the ransomware attack on the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Research (NWO), causing damage worth €4.5 million ($5 million).
Marks and Spencer cyber nightmare continues as customer information leaks

2 days ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

British retailer Marks and Spencer said on Tuesday some personal customer information was taken in the cyberattack that has crippled its online operation for more than three weeks. M&S, one of the best-known names in British business, stopped taking online orders on April 25th, and its share price has fallen 15% since the Easter weekend, when problems with orders first started.
Banking update glitch allowed users to view each other’s accounts

2 days ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Update bug in Arkansas-based Arvest Bank systems exposed customer data, allowing users to peek into accounts they do not own. While data leaks usually involve third parties going places they‘re not supposed to, private data can get exposed in less nefarious ways. Take Arkansas' oldest bank, Arvest. According to the company‘s recent breach notification letter, thousands of its customers were exposed over an update gone awry.
Russia’s aviation personnel's health data leaked en masse

3 days ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Millions of extremely personal records from the Rostec-owned Center of Aviation Medicine (TsAM) were leaked, exposing everything from names and phone numbers to allergies and account balances. The information initially appeared on a popular data leak forum on the 9th of May, when Russia celebrates the Soviet victory in the Second World War. The post author claims the leaked dataset includes a myriad of private details, exposing a total of 1.1 million individuals.
Hackers target utility services, steal data of thousands

4 days ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Attackers breached the electricity and water provider Starkville Utilities' defenses, getting their hands on data of over 11K individuals. Mississippi-based Starkville, which services Mississippi State University, noticed attackers roaming its systems in late October of last year, prompting the company to disconnect access to the network.
Phishing email blunder exposed nearly 50K stockbrokers’ customers

4 days ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Employees of SogoTrade, a US-based online stockbroker, clicked a malicious link, resulting in tens of thousands having their personal details being exposed to attackers. Phishing awareness is a must, not a luxury – a lesson SogoTrade learned the hard way. Earlier this year, the company succumbed to a classic phishing attack, resulting in four of its email accounts getting compromised.
Meditation iOS app leaked over 100K users’ personal details

2 weeks ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

An iPhone app for tai chi (a mind-body practice) and meditation, 7 Minute Chi - Meditate & Move, exposed numerous customers, revealing their names and email addresses, the Cybernews research team has discovered. People turn to meditation apps for many reasons: to sleep better, to attain peace of mind, or simply decompress. However, 7 Minute Chi - Meditate & Move pairs a search for calm with anxiety over data loss.
Dating on the down-low? This iPhone app might be exposing your texts

3 weeks ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

A virtual phone number iOS app with millions of downloads in the US has exposed its users’ data, including messages, media, and sender and recipient details. While there are many reasons to have a virtual phone number, privacy is the most common. This is not lost on Second Phone Number app creators, as its App Store description starts with “Need a second phone number for private calls and texts?”However, users expecting privacy are in for a surprise.
Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft gobbles too much user data, privacy advocates claim

3 weeks ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

French game publisher Ubisoft forces users to connect to the internet, and can’t explain why the connection is mandatory for single-player games, noyb, an influential European privacy lobby group, has said. Privacy advocates at noyb filed a complaint against Ubisoft, the French game publisher known for major titles such as Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia, and Far Cry.