It has been announced that the criminals behind the Medibank data breach have published some of the stolen data online. On Wednesday the names, addresses, birthdates and Medicare details of about 200 customers started appearing on the dark web under a “good-list” and a “naughty-list”. The health insurer has warned that more stolen data, including passport numbers, will also be published after the first files were released overnight.
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Changes to cyber insurance policies will require businesses to make greater efforts to control access to data and IT systems
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Customers of American Airlines informed that hackers have accessed their personal data from employee email accounts
American Airlines is once again at the centre of a data breach incident, after it notified customers last Friday that their data has been compromised.
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Uber has announced a “cyber security incident”, the culprit of which was found to be an 18-year-old hacker infiltrating employees’ Slack network The threat actor compromised the Slack app, using it to send messages to Uber employees, stating: “I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach”, before listing the databases they had gained access to.
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Big headache for Twitter’s board as its former chief security officer, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, makes explosive allegations about security and management lapses
Twitter is hit by explosive statements from a whistleblower, namely its former security chief who was fired earlier this year.
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