The company reports having 170,000 customers, including 7-Eleven, Comcast, Samsung, MIT, NVIDIA, SIEMENS, and the United Nations. Per AnyDesk Incident Response notice: Following our public statement on 2 February 2024 about a cyber incident at AnyDesk https://anydesk.com/en/public-statement-2-2-2024, we can assure you that we immediately took all necessary steps to investigate and mitigate the incident and […]
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Category: Cyber-Security Breach
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Microsoft Breach of employee accounts from November 2023 through January 2024
Microsoft Breach of employee accounts from November 2023 through January 2024. The threat actor accessed key employee accounts for 3 months. It was detected on January 12, 2024, and reported to the SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) on Form 8-K on January 17, 2024. The threat actor was in key employee accounts from November 2023 […]
MGM Cyber-Attack
MGM Cyber-Attack was devised by hackers used a technique called “Social Engineering” and within 10-minutes gained access to this $33.9 Billion dollar business. This data breach at MGM could have been avoided. Cyberattack compromises computer systems at MGM casinos, resorts A cyberattack by hackers on the computer systems for MGM Resorts International has impacted its […]
GoDaddy Breach
In recent news, GoDaddy, a leading web hosting company, revealed that a GoDaddy breach spanning multiple years had resulted in the theft of company source code, customer and employee login credentials, and the placement of malware on customer websites. While media outlets have understandably focused on the admission that GoDaddy was targeted by the same […]
Plex Breach
Breaking News Received this notice from Plex today stating there was a breach on 08/24/2022. The gist of the situation is login, perform a password reset, and confirm you have MFA (multi-factor authentication) setup and enabled. Dear Plex User, We want you to be aware of an incident involving your Plex account information yesterday. While […]
Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
Per this ARSTtechnica article from Oct 5, 2021, Syniverse hasn’t revealed whether text messages were exposed. Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages every year for hundreds of carriers including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, revealed to government regulators that a hacker gained unauthorized access to its databases for five years. Syniverse […]
Breaches at Network Solutions, Register.com, and Web.com
Domain name registrars NetworkSolutions.com, Register.com and Web.com are asking customers to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion in August 2019 in which customer account information was accessed. A notice to customers at notice.web.com: “On October 16, 2019, Web.com determined that a third-party gained unauthorized access to a limited number of its computer systems in […]
NordVPN Hacked
October 21, 2019 Per this TechCrunch article, NordVPN confirms it was hacked. Here are some details from that article: NordVPN told TechCrunch that one of its data centers was accessed in March 2018. “One of the data centers in Finland we are renting our servers from was accessed with no authorization,” said NordVPN spokesperson Laura […]