LG Uplus is latest South Korean telco to confirm cybersecurity incident
Korean telecom giant LG Uplus is the third major phone provider in the past six months to report a cybersecurity incident.
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‘Dozens’ of organizations had data stolen in Oracle-linked hacks
The mass-hacks targeting Oracle E-Business customers is the latest hacking campaign by Clop, an extortion group known for abusing security flaws in enterprise products to steal large amounts of sensitive data.
Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases
The hacking group claims to have stolen about a billion records from companies, including FedEx, Qantas, and TransUnion, who store their customer and company data in Salesforce.
Data breach at Canadian airline WestJet affects 1.2M passengers
The June data breach of Canada’s second largest airline WestJet was blamed on the Scattered Spider hacking group.
Automaker giant Stellantis says customers’ personal data stolen during breach
One report says, citing the hackers who took credit for the breach, that 18 million customer records were stolen from Stellantis’ customer database.
Plex urges users to change passwords after data breach
Customers are urged to take action after a database containing scrambled passwords and authentication information was compromised.
Salesloft says Drift customer data thefts linked to March GitHub account hack
The breach, now known to have begun in March, raises questions about why it took six months for Salesloft to detect the breach.
TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information
The credit reporting giant confirmed unauthorized access to a third-party application storing the personal information of its customers.
DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower
The Social Security Administration’s chief data officer has publicly blown the whistle, alleging DOGE put hundreds of millions of Social Security records at risk of compromise.
A new security flaw in TheTruthSpy phone spyware is putting victims at risk
Exclusive: Hackers can take over the accounts of TheTruthSpy spyware customers, putting their victims’ private phone data at risk thanks to a new security flaw.