Data Breaches

Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world Friday regained access to a key online learning system after a cyberattack had earlier knocked it offline, throwing schools and universities into turmoil. Elizabeth Polo was in a creative writing class at the University of Maryland late Thursday afternoon when a classmate shouted, “Canvas got hacked.” A message from a hacking collective flashed on her computer screen. “Our whole class just like was…

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The RansomHouse ransomware group has taken credit for the recent attack on the cybersecurity firm Trellix. The Trellix hack came to light this week when the company announced on its website that part of its source code repository had been breached. “Based on our investigation to date, we have found no evidence that our source code release or distribution process was affected, or that our source code has been exploited,” the company stated. No other…

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Canadian retailer Loblaw has disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained access to customer information. Loblaw is one of Canada’s largest food and pharmacy retailers. It operates over 2,400 stores across Canada and owns brands such as Shoppers Drug Mart, No Frills, Real Canadian Superstore, and President’s Choice. In a brief data breach notice the company said it recently discovered that a “criminal third-party” accessed basic customer information such as names, email addresses, and…

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Clothing retailer Under Armour is investigating a recent data breach that purloined customers’ email addresses and other personal information, but so far there are no signs the hackers stole any passwords or financial information. The breach is believed to have happened late last year, and affected 72 million email addresses, according to information cited by the cybersecurity website Have I Been Pwned. Some of the records taken also included personal information that included names, genders,…

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Red Hat on Thursday confirmed that one of its GitLab instances was hacked after a threat actor claimed to have stolen sensitive data belonging to the company and its customers.  It was initially reported that the hackers had targeted a GitHub instance, but the enterprise software giant clarified that it was actually a GitLab instance, specifically one used by the Red Hat Consulting team.  The hackers, calling themselves Crimson Collective, claimed to have stolen 570…

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Harrods, the luxury British department store, has warned some customers that their personal data may have been taken in a breach of its online systems. The company said late Friday that some names and contact details of its online customers were taken after one of its third-party provider systems was compromised. “We have informed affected customers that the impacted personal data is limited to basic personal identifiers including name and contact details, but does not…

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