Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Pearson, a London-based publishing and education giant that provides software to schools and universities has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a 2018 data breach resulting in the theft of millions of student records. Read via Tech Crunch
Read MoreT-Mobile has confirmed “unauthorized access” to its systems, days after a portion of customer data was listed for sale on a known cybercriminal forum. 100 million records on T-Mobile customers, which included customer account names, phone numbers, the IMEI numbers of phones on the account, and Social Security number and driver’s license information Read via Tech […]
Read MoreSecurity researchers have discovered a 12-year-old router vulnerability that they’ve warned may affect millions of devices globally. The issue may affect millions of devices manufactured by 17 different vendors, used in at least 11 countries — including Australia, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the US. Read via infosecurity magazine
Read MoreSecurity researchers have discovered an online database completely unsecured and exposed to the public internet, containing the personal details of at least 63 million Americans. The database itself contained around 126 million records. Depending on the number of duplicates in there, the number of affected individuals could be anywhere between 63 million and 126 million […]
Read MoreSix schools on the Isle of Wight and their umbrella organisation have been targeted by a ransomware attack, leaving teachers and pupils unable to access their online systems and causing disruption to the start of the new school year in September. Read via ComputerWeekly
Read MoreThe National Lottery Community Fund has said that two missing unencrypted disks were the cause of the data breach that it warned charities about last month. The grant-maker had said that more than six years’ worth of contact and bank details had potentially been exposed to fraud. It said the breach involved data provided to […]
Read MoreGun owners in Northern Ireland have been urged to be “extra vigilant” over their home security after the PSNI confirmed that 803 customers in Northern Ireland have been affected by a major data breach from online trading website GunTrader UK. Read via 4NI
Read MoreAmazon has been hit with a record €746m (£635m) fine for breaking EU rules over how it processed customers’ personal data, the tech giant disclosed today. In a regulatory filing Amazon said the Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) had issued the ruling against it for breaches of EU data protection rules on 16 […]
Read MoreSupply chain attacks are becoming increasingly common. Security breaches caused by the compromise of a software provider or other partner are causing businesses significant headaches. Read via ITProPortal
Read MoreFrance’s personal data protection agency has fined US firm Monsanto for illegally compiling files of public figures, journalists and activists with the aim of swaying opinion towards support for its controversial pesticides. Read via Yahoo
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