Qantas has suffered a major cyber-attack, potentially exposing the records of up to 6 million customers. The airline said on Wednesday that the affected system had now been contained and its systems were secured. The system in question was a third-party platform used by the airline’s contact centre, which contains the records of 6 million…
Data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) has confirmed a data breach that compromised the personal information of over 364,000 people. LexisNexis operates in 40 countries, has customers worldwide, and employs over 11,500 people. The subsidiary of the British data analytics conglomerate RELX works with 91% of Fortune 100 companies and 85% of Fortune 500 companies,…
Cybercrime is predicted to cost the world $10.5 trillion USD in 2025, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime would be the world’s third largest economy after the U.S. and China. This represents the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history, risks the incentives for innovation and investment, is exponentially…
Adidas reported a data breach involving a customer service provider. No passwords, credit card numbers, and payment-related details were affected during the data breach. Cybercriminals had accessed customer data via a third-party customer service provider, while noting that the breach did not involve passwords or credit card data. “We immediately took steps to contain the…
Ascension, one of the largest private healthcare systems in the United States, is notifying patients that their personal and health information was stolen in a December 2024 data theft attack, which affected a former business partner. The health network operates 142 hospitals nationwide, has over 142,000 employees, and has reported a total revenue of $28.3 billion in…
UnitedHealth Group is demanding that healthcare providers repay the loans they received from the company after a cyberattack at its tech unit Change Healthcare last year, according to two providers on Friday. The largest U.S. health insurance company loaned out $9 billion to providers who had been struggling after the massive ransomware attack in February…
sAxess App launch Serenity, recently announced the launch of the sAxess App on the App Store® to enhance cybersecurity through fingerprint authentication, cryptocurrency management & data protection The launch delivers the world’s first app to offer external access exclusively through biometric authentication via a physical card, eliminating traditional passwords entirely. With data breaches increasingly tied…
Australian financial services firm FIIG Securities faces legal action from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following a cybersecurity breach that exposed sensitive information of 18,000 clients. The Australian securities watchdog said on Thursday it is taking fixed-income broker FIIG to court, alleging it failed to implement adequate cybersecurity measures over a four-year period,…
Fidelity Investments has confirmed that it suffered a major data breach to US authorities. In its filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, the US-based asset manager said the incident, which occurred in August, exposed the personal information of more than 77,000 customers. Fidelity Investments added that it had commissioned external security experts…
India’s largest crypto exchange, WazirX, has been hacked, resulting in the transfer of cryptocurrencies worth over ₹1,900 crore to an anonymous wallet. Republic Business has reached out to WazirX for confirmation of the total loss, but the exchange has yet to respond. The hacker swapped Tether (USDT), Pepe tokens, and GALA into Ether. Blockchain data…
