Cloud AI Data platform Snowflake are having a bad month. Due to teenager threat actors and cybersecurity of its own customers… and its own cybersecurity, too, in terms of optics.
There are several large data breaches playing out in the media currently. For example, Ticketmaster owner Live Nation filed an 8-K with the SEC for potentially the largest data breach ever, claimed to be 560 million customers.
Cooler Master, a popular computer hardware maker, has allegedly suffered from a data breach, exposing the company’s corporate data as well as the personal details of members from its fan-based members program.
The attackers claim to have stolen 103GB of data from the company’s servers on May 18th. According to the attacks’ perpetrators, the allegedly stolen information carries a trove of sensitive data, including Cooler Master’s Fanzone members’ payment card details.
Spanish bank Santander said on Tuesday some customer and employee data in a database hosted by an outside provider was accessed by an unauthorized party, but that the bank's own operations and systems have not been affected.
On 2 May 2024, the City of Helsinki issued a notice of a data breach targeted at its Education Division. Investigation into the data breach proceeds through a cooperative effort by the City´s own and external experts. On Monday, 13 May 2024, the City of Helsinki held a press conference on the progress of this investigation.
The UK Ministry of Defense said a breach at a third-party payroll system exposed as many as 272,000 armed forces personnel and veterans.
Streaming giant Roku has confirmed a second security incident in as many months, with hackers this time able to compromise more than half a million Roku user accounts.
In a statement Friday, the company said about 576,000 user accounts were accessed using a technique known as credential stuffing, where malicious hackers use usernames and passwords stolen from other data breaches and reuse the logins on other sites.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense, whose products are designed to allow companies to view the status of multiple third-party online services in a single dashboard.…