Reuters reports: Cruise operator Carnival Corp said on Thursday it had detected unauthorized access to its computer systems in March, after which it alerted regulators and hired a cybersecurity firm to investigate the breach. The company, whose shares were down over 2%, noticed the suspicious activity on March 19 and acted quickly to “to...
SEK 12 million in penalty fees against the company Medhelp, half a million against the Stockholm Region and SEK 250,000 against each against Sörmland and Värmland. This is the outcome of the review made by the Privacy Protection Authority in the case of the millions of 1177 calls that were left unprotected on the...
Amy Hogan reports: Wegmans is notifying its customers of a security breach of a database that stores customer information. A statement posted to the grocery chain’s website explains that the cloud database was meant for internal use only, but, due to a “configuration problem,” was left open to potential outside access. Read more on Fox40.
Yang Jie and Liza Lin report: A Chinese software developer trawled Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ’s popular Taobao shopping website for eight months, clandestinely collecting more than 1.1 billion pieces of user information before Alibaba noticed the scraping, a Chinese court verdict said. The software developer began using web-crawling software he designed on Taobao’s site starting in...
First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine – Krebs