Suspected hackers have accessed client data of Italy’s biggest lender, UniCredit, in two attacks over the past 10 months which affected around 400,000 Italian customers, the most serious hack ever reported by a major Italian lender.
The Milan-based bank blamed a “third party provider” for the two data breaches it discovered, which it said happened between September and October 2016 and again between June and July of this year.
WhiteScope, an independent provider of cyber security services and training, has just released research that shows that pacemaker programmers, from four major manufacturers, have 8,000 bugs that leave them vulnerable to hacking.
More importantly, the researchers said they’ve also discovered that pacemakers don’t authenticate programmers, so any working tool listed on eBay has the potential to harm patients with the implant. “Any pacemaker programmer can reprogram any pacemaker from the same manufacturer.This shows one of the areas where patient care influenced cybersecurity posture.” wrote the researchers in their summary.
Hackers are claiming to have stolen an upcoming Disney movie and are demanding a ransom, according media reporters. Disney CEO Bob Iger first revealed the hackers’ claim in a staff meeting with employees in New York City, Deadline.com and The Hollywood Reporter reported. Disney is working with federal investigators and will not pay the ransom, the reports say.
Movie website Deadline identified Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which opens on May 26, as the target, without revealing its sources, while some film writers speculated on Twitter that Pixar’s Cars 3, due for release next month, might have been hit.
Tesco said that around 20,000 customers had lost money as a result and another 20,000 have been identified as falling victim to ‘suspicious activity’.
Over the weekend customers reported that money had gone missing from accounts with some complaining they could not get through on the phone to the bank, which has 7 million customers.
The bank was earlier forced to block some customers’ cards after ‘suspicious activity’ was detected in its fraud prevention system.
Yahoo confirmed that personal data from at least 500 million of its user accounts has been stolen in one of history’s largest ever security breaches. The company, in the statement, said that "state-sponsored actor" is behind the attack, which happened in late 2014, but was only discovered recently during investigation of another suspected attack. Yahoo didn’t revealed the identity of the state.
Yahoo could confirm in the coming days a data breach in the accounts of several hundred million users, as reported by Recode citing unnamed sources. The breach may affect over 200 million Yahoo accounts, including highly sensitive information such as names, passwords, birth dates or other email addresses. The confirmation would follow a Yahoo investigation into claims that surfaced in early August that a hacker with the name "Peace" was trying to sell data, as referred by USA Today.
Hackers have compromised the Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex, the company announced today, withdrawing roughly $61 million from various consumer accounts. The causes are still unclear, but the attackers appear to have bypassed Bitfinex’s mandated limits on withdrawals.
"The theft is being reported to – and we are co-operating with – law enforcement," the statement reads. "We ask for the community’s patience as we unravel the causes and consequences of this breach", the company posted the note on their website detailing the security breach.
