Chase bank accidentally leaked customer info to other customers
Chase Bank has admitted to the presence of a technical bug on its online banking website and app that allowed accidental leakage of customer banking information to other customers. New York City-based JPMorgan Chase Bank is a financial services giant with a $120 billion annual revenue and over 250,000 employees worldwide. Personal details of Chase bank customers including statements, transaction list, names, and account numbers were potentially exposed to other Chase banking members. READ MORE...
T-Mobile has been hacked yet again-but still doesn't know what was taken
T-Mobile said on Monday that hackers breached its internal servers and that company investigators are in the process of determining if the incident involves the theft of sensitive customer data. "We have determined that unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred, however we have not yet determined that there is any personal customer data involved," the company said in a statement. READ MORE...
Misconfigured Server Leaks US Terror Watchlist
A secret watchlist of suspected terrorists maintained by the FBI was exposed online after a configuration error and then not fixed for several weeks after being reported, according to Comparitech. Head of security research at the firm, Bob Diachenko, said he discovered the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) list on July 19, when the exposed Elasticsearch server was indexed by search engines Censys and ZoomEye. READ MORE...
Hospitals hamstrung by ransomware are turning away patients
Dozens of hospitals and clinics in West Virginia and Ohio are canceling surgeries and diverting ambulances following a ransomware attack that has knocked out staff access to IT systems across virtually all of their operations. The facilities are owned by Memorial Health System, which represents 64 clinics, including hospitals Marietta Memorial, Selby General, and Sistersville General in the Marietta-Parkersburg metropolitan area in West Virginia and Ohio. READ MORE...
Education giant Pearson fined $1M for downplaying data breach
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that Pearson, a British multinational educational publishing and services company, has settled charges of mishandling the disclosure process for a 2018 data breach discovered in March 2019. Pearson agreed to pay a $1 million civil money penalty to settle charges "without admitting or denying the findings" that it tried to hide and downplay the 2018 data breach. READ MORE...
Millions of IoT Devices Exposed to Attacks Due to Cloud Platform Vulnerability
Researchers at FireEye's threat intelligence and incident response unit Mandiant have identified a critical vulnerability that exposes millions of IoT devices to remote attacks. The flaw was found in a core component of the Kalay cloud platform for IoT devices offered by ThroughTek, a Taiwan-based company that provides IoT and M2M solutions for surveillance, security, smart home, cloud storage, and consumer electronics systems. READ MORE...
Critical Valve Bug Lets Gamers Add Unlimited Funds to Steam Wallets
A security researcher helped Valve, the makers of the gaming platform Steam, plug an easy-to-exploit hole that allowed users to add unlimited funds to their digital wallet. Simply by changing the account's email address, the exploit allowed anyone to artificially boost their digital billfold to anything they wanted. Steam Wallet funds are exclusive to the Steam platform and are used to purchase in-game merchandise, subscriptions and Steam-related content. READ MORE...
- ...in 1827, American folk hero and politician Davy Crockett is born in Greene County, TN.
- ...in 1943, actor Robert De Niro ("Taxi Driver", "Godfather Part II") is born in New York City.
- ...in 1945, George Orwell's satirical novella "Animal Farm" is published in the UK.
- ...in 2008, American swimmer Michael Phelps wins a world-record eight gold medals in a single Olympic Games.
