22 Nov, 2024

Fintech giant Finastra investigates data breach after SFTP hack

Finastra has confirmed it warned customers of a cybersecurity incident after a threat actor began selling allegedly stolen data on a hacking forum. Finastra is a financial software company serving over 8,000 institutions across 130 countries, including 45 of the world’s top 50 banks and credit unions. The company employs 12,000 people, and last year, […]

3 mins read

US space tech giant Maxar discloses employee data breach

Hackers breached U.S. satellite maker Maxar Space Systems and accessed personal data belonging to its employees, the company informs in a notification to impacted individuals. The threat actor compromised the company network about a week before the discovery of the intrusion. Immediately after discovering the unauthorized access, the company took action to prevent the hackers […]

2 mins read

HIBP notifies 57 million people of Hot Topic data breach

Have I Been Pwned warns that an alleged data breach exposed the personal information of 56,904,909 accounts for Hot Topic, Box Lunch, and Torrid customers. Hot Topic is an American retail chain specializing in counterculture-related clothing, accessories, and licensed music merchandise. The company operates over 640 stores across the United States and Canada, primarily located […]

2 mins read

Amazon confirms employee data breach after vendor hack

Amazon confirmed a data breach involving employee information after data allegedly stolen during the May 2023 MOVEit attacks was leaked on a hacking forum. The threat actor behind this data leak, known as Nam3L3ss, published over 2.8 million lines of Amazon employee data, including names, contact information, building locations, email addresses, and more. Amazon spokesperson Adam […]

3 mins read

Interbank confirms data breach following failed extortion, data leak

​Interbank, one of Peru’s leading financial institutions, has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor who hacked into its systems leaked stolen data online. Previously known as the International Bank of Peru (Banco Internacional del Perú), the company provides financial services to over 2 million customers. “We have identified that some data of a […]

2 mins read

Fidelity Investments says data breach affects over 77,000 people

Fidelity Investments, a Boston-based multinational financial services company, disclosed that the personal information of over 77,000 customers was exposed after its systems were breached in August. As one of the largest asset managers in the world, with $14.1 trillion in assets under administration and $5.5 trillion under management, Fidelity employs over 75,000 associates across 11 countries in […]

2 mins read

Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. […]

3 mins read

Dutch Police: ‘State actor’ likely behind recent data breach

The national Dutch police (Politie) says that a state actor was likely behind the data breach it detected last week. The attack compromised police office contact details, names, email addresses, phone numbers, and in some cases, private details. According to the original report, the attacker had hacked a police account and stole work-related contact details of […]

2 mins read

Disney ditching Slack after massive July data breach

The Walt Disney Company is reportedly ditching Slack after a July data breach exposed over 1TB of confidential messages and files posted to the company’s internal communication channels. According to CNBC, Disney has already begun migrating to new “streamlined enterprise-wide collaboration tools” and emailed employees this week to say that they will finish the migration at the end […]

1 min read

Dell investigates data breach claims after hacker leaks employee info

Dell has confirmed to GeekFeed that they are investigating recent claims that it suffered a data breach after a threat actor leaked the data for over 10,000 employees. The allegations were published yesterday by a threat actor named “grep,” who alleges that the computing vendor suffered a “minor data breach” in September 2024, exposing internal employee and […]

1 min read