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Saturday, January 30, 2021
Dropbox Scam
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Thursday, January 28, 2021
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The Week in Breach News
The Week in Breach News – United States
United States – Teespring
https://cybernews.com/security/8-million-teespring-user-records-leaked-on-hacker-forum/
Exploit: Hacking
Teespring: eCommerce Platform
Risk to Business: 2.129 = Severe
Hackers have dropped a huge trove of user and creator data allegedly from Teespring, an e-commerce platform that specializes in enabling designers to market their wares. The two massive files of stolen data include email addresses and last update dates for 8,242,000 user accounts.
Individual Risk: 2.221 = Severe
The info dump contains 4,000,000+ user records, including usernames, full names, locations, phone numbers, Creator IDs, referral information, trust score, whitelisted seller campaigns, storefronts, bank check payouts, and other analytics data. This data could be used to conduct business email compromise attacks and spear phishing attempts.
Customers Impacted: 8,242,000
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Data like this is sought-after by cybercriminals and often hangs around for years on the Dark Web, acting as fuel for future cybercrime.
United States – Circuit Court of Cook County
https://www.securityweek.com/illinois-court-exposes-more-323000-sensitive-records
Exploit: Unsecured Server
Circuit Court of Cook County: Municipal Court System
Risk to Business: 1.775 = Severe
An unsecured Elasticsearch server is the cause of a huge data exposure containing more than 323,277 Cook County court-related records. Researchers estimate that the database may have belonged to a specialist Cook County department of caseworkers working with people who needed additional help.
Risk to Business: 1.612 = Severe
The records contained PII such as full names, home addresses, email addresses, and court case numbers and notes on the status of both the case and the individuals concerned. Criminal, family and immigration cases are in the mix. This data could be used to mount an array of attacks like blackmail, identity theft and spear phishing attempts.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business Failing to take a simple step to secure a server that contains sensitive information doesn’t speak well to an organization’s commitment to cybersecurity.
United States – MeetMindful
https://www.zdnet.com/article/sonicwall-says-it-was-hacked-using-zero-days-in-its-own-products/
Exploit: Hacking
MeetMindful: Dating Site
Risk to Business: 1.979 = Severe
Details of an estimated 2.28 million users of dating site MeetMindful was just released online in the latest in a series of stolen data dumps by cybercrime gang ShinyHunters. There’s no clear origin of the data, but researchers expect that it may have come from an unsecured AWS S3 bucket.
Individual Risk: 1.779 = Severe
The dumped data includes users’ real names, email addresses, address information, physical descriptions, dating preferences, marital status, birth data, location data, IP addresses, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, Facebook user IDs and Facebook authentication tokens. This information puts users at risk for spear phishing attacks.
Customers Impacted: 2.28 million
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Keeping data safe from hackers starts with keeping data secure using strong access point controls and basic security protocols like multifactor authentication.
United States – Bonobos
Exploit: Hacking
Bonobos: Menswear Retailer
Risk to Business: 1.979 = Severe
Men’s clothier Bonobos has experienced a huge 70GB data breach exposing millions of customers’ personal information after a cloud backup of their database was snatched. ShinyHunters, who had a very busy week, posted the full Bonobos database to a free hacker forum. ShinyHunters was kind enough to transform the stolen password data into a handy list for credential stuffing.
Individual Risk: 2.006 = Severe
The leaked data included customers’ addresses, phone numbers, partial credit card numbers (last four digits), order information and password histories. This information can be used in many cyberattacks including spear phishing and credential stuffing.
Customers Impacted: 7 million
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Data theft is an increasingly worrisome problem for everyone. Not only is the original business impacted, the addition of such large troves of information to the Dark Web fuels further cybercrime.
The Week in Breach News – Canada
Canada – City of Montmagne
https://presstories.com/2021/01/23/cyber-%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Battack-ransomware-victim-montmagne-city/
Exploit: Ransomware
City of Montmagne: Municipal Government
Risk to Business: 2.211 = Severe
The municipal government of Montagne in Quebec has fallen victim to a ransomware attack that crippled city systems. Some services have been restored including the phone system which was down for 6 days, but the recovery could be slow.
Individual Risk: No personal or business financial information or PII was reported as stolen in this incident that is still under investigation.
Customers Impacted: 17,553
The Week in Breach News – United Kingdom & European Union
United Kingdom – the7stars
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/22/the7stars_ransomware_attack_clop/
Exploit: Ransomware
the7stars: Talent Agency
Risk to Business: 1.411 = Severe
Clop ransomware is at the root of a data breach at the7stars, a London-based talent agency that handles clients with connections to Atlantic Records, Suzuki and Penguin Random House. Internal client records, business agreements, photographs, business records, and other communications were included in this haul. The agency announced that it was able to restore its systems from back-ups and are continuing to investigate.
Individual Risk: 1.221 = Severe
The stolen data includes scans of passports, invoices, and other sensitive information about the agency’s clients. This information can be used for identity theft and spear phishing.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Ransomware is a huge risk for every business, and it’s essential that everyone in your team is on board to spot and stop ransomware attacks.
Sweden- Pixlr
Exploit: Third Party Data Breach
Pixlr: Photo Editing Software Developer
Risk to Business: 1.827 = Severe
ShinyHunters are at it again, this time with a dump of data from Pixlr. The gang claims that the Pixlr data was obtained through their earlier successful breach at stock photo site 123rf, which is owned by the same parent company. The Pixlr database posted by ShinyHunters contains 1,921,141 user records consisting of email addresses, login names, SHA-512 hashed passwords, a user’s country, whether they signed up for the newsletter, and other internal information.
Individual Risk: 1.717 = Severe
User information was stolen that includes basic contact information for users, leaving them at risk for spear phishing attacks.
Customers Impacted: 1,921,141
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Third party data breaches are becoming all too common as Dark Web data grows, creating even more risk for businesses, especially around credential stuffing.
The Week in Breach News – Australia & New Zealand
Australia – Australia Securities and Investments Commission
Exploit: Hacking
Australia Securities and Investments Commission: Securities Regulator
Risk to Business: 1.616 = Severe
A security breach at Australia’s security regulator may have led to a significant data exposure. The breach occurred on a server that the organization used to transfer files including credit license applications where some information may have been viewed. This breach may have been caused by a suspected flaw in third-party software that may have also spurred a similar breach at the New Zealand central bank a few weeks ago.
Individual Risk: No personal or business data was reported as confirmed to be stolen in this incident that is still under investigation.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Taking precautions against potential third party data breaches is sensible for every business because you can never be sure how another company’s cybersecurity flaws may impact your business.
The Week in Breach News Guide to Our Risk Scores
1 – 1.5 = Extreme Risk
1.51 – 2.49 = Severe Risk
2.5 – 3 = Moderate Risk
Risk scores for The Week in Breach are calculated using a formula that considers a wide range of factors related to the assessed breach.
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Friday, January 22, 2021
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Can Your Staff Really Spot Phishing Messages? Can You?
Can Your Staff Really Spot Phishing Messages? Can You?
Phishing is a threat that looms large for every business. In 2020, phishing threats grew by more than 600% as cybercriminals took advantage of a perfect storm of factors that gave them great advantages: a newly remote workforce, world unrest, the COVID-19 pandemic and a crashing economy.
That’s definitely a growth category for cybercrime in 2021. Damage related to cybercrime including phishing-related threats like ransomware and business email compromise is projected to hit $6 trillion annually in 2021 as a new cyberattack is launched every 39 seconds.
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Breaches around the world
The Week in Breach News – Canada
Canada – Government of Saskatchewan Hunting, Angling & Fishing Licensing (HAL)
https://globalnews.ca/news/7573195/saskatchewan-privacy-commissioner-hunting-licence-breach/
Exploit: Human Error
Government of Saskatchewan HAL: Regional Regulatory System
Risk to Business: 2.775 = Moderate
The Government of Saskatchewan is informing citizens that an information security incident occurred on 01/07/20 when an email regarding Hunter Harvest surveys was sent to HAL customers from a third-party agency called Aspira. That contractor sent an email that contained the wrong customer name and HAL account identification number to about 33,000 email addresses, scrambling information to the wrong people.
Individual Risk: 2.833 = Moderate
The only information that has been reported as compromised at this time was the name and HAL identification number of affected parties. No payment or other personal information was declared impacted in this breach.
Customers Impacted: 33,000
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: The number one cause of a data breach is always the same: human error. By building cyber resilience, organizations can make sure that they’re ready for challenges brought on by employee mistakes.
The Week in Breach News – United Kingdom & European Union
United Kingdom – Nohow International
https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contractors/amey/amey-hit-by-cyber-attack-05-01-2021/
Exploit: Unsecured Database
Nohow International: Staffing Firm
Risk to Business: 1.411 = Extreme
In a devastating blunder, unsecured Microsoft Azure Blob exposed deeply sensitive documents of more than 12,000 construction workers. The treasure trove contained 12,464 images, PDF documents, and email messages presumably sent by the exposed workers to Nohow International in the course of gaining and changing employment with the staffing firm.
Individual Risk: 1.221 = Severe
Employee data impacted in this breach includes scans of passports, national IDs, birth certificates, and tax returns. This data also contained MSG files of email messages sent by construction workers to Nohow’s email address used specifically for receiving documents. The email messages include the workers’ personal and payment information, such as taxpayer reference and national insurance numbers, as well as banking details. This extremely sensitive information can be used to facilitate spear phishing attacks and identity theft.
Customers Impacted: 12,000
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Failure to secure an average database is a ding to a company’s reputation for trustworthiness, but failing to secure a database full of extremely sensitive information like this could be devastating.
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The Netherlands – Eneco
Exploit: Credential Stuffing
Eneco: Energy Company
Risk to Business: 1.827 = Severe
Dutch energy supplier Eneco has warned tens of thousands of clients, including business partners, to change their passwords after a recent data breach following a suspected credential stuffing attack. The company reported that hackers accessed approximately 1,700 private and small business accounts. A separate group of approximately 47,000 customers is also being informed by email about the incident “as a precaution”. The investigation is still ongoing.
Individual Risk: 1.717 = Severe
The company stated that affected customers may have had their data “viewed and possibly changed by third parties,” but was unspecific about the exact impact.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Credential stuffing is a popular attack because it’s cheap, effective, and it’s been made so easy due to an abundance of Dark Web data to fuel it.
The Week in Breach News – Asia Pacific
Japan – Capcom
https://threatpost.com/data-breach-resident-evil-gaming/162977/
Exploit: Ransomware
Capcom Co. Ltd.: Videogame Developer
Risk to Business: 1.332 = Extreme
Recent data breach damage at Capcom was significantly worse than they thought. Capcom has announced that their investigation has uncovered that the personal data of up to 400,000 customers was compromised in the attack — 40,000 more than the company originally estimated. The announcement added that its investigation is ongoing and that new evidence of additional compromise could still come. The Ragnar locker ransomware group also captured 1TB of corporate data, including banking details, contracts, proprietary data, emails and more.
Individual Risk: 2.623 = Moderate
It’s uncertain if any further client data was impacted. Capcom was quick to note that no customer credit-card data was exfiltrated during the breach, saying that it’s currently safe to play and purchase the company’s games online since those transactions are handled by a third-party service provider.
Customers Impacted: 400,000 and growing
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: No business is too big or too small to fall prey to cybercrime. Ransomware can strike companies of any size and deliver an impact that resounds for months.
The Week in Breach News Guide to Our Risk Scores
1 – 1.5 = Extreme Risk
1.51 – 2.49 = Severe Risk
2.5 – 3 = Moderate Risk
Risk scores for The Week in Breach are calculated using a formula that considers a wide range of factors related to the assessed breach.
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