Issue #198 · 18 May 2023

Toyota exposes car location of 2 million customers. US offers $10 million reward for Lockbit creator. Minimal issue.

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News

Hi friends,

I'm afraid it's a minimal issue this week, and a day early. I'm currently in London for a conference and I want to take it all in :-) I've gathered the usual list of articles and stories I found interesting, just without the summaries. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless!

Dieter Van der Stock

Breaches and leaks

Toyota exposes car location of two million customers for ten years: link.
Pharmacy services provider PharMerica was hacked, impacting 5.8 million patients: link.
Discord discloses data breach after support agent got hacked: link.
Tech giant ABB was breached: link.
Capita warns customers that they should assume their data is stolen: link.
AirBaltic exposes passenger information to other passengers: link.
Data of 237.000 US gov employees breached: link.
Philadelphia Inquirer operations disrupted after cyberattack: link.

Dieter Van der Stock

US offers $10 million reward for creator of Lockbit ransomwaremacaubusiness.com

New zip domains spark debate among cybersecurity expertbleepingcomputer.com

US fines companies for producing fake comments on net neutrality issueny.gov

App Store stopped more than $2 billion in fraudulent transactions in 2022apple.com

Hackers infect TP-Link router firmware to attack EU entitiesbleepingcomputer.com

Backdoored VSCode extensions with over 45k downloadscheckpoint.com

EU plans Black Sea internet cable to reduce reliance on Russiaarchive.ph

NSA releases new best practices for securing home networkssecurityintelligence.com

1Password is getting support for passkeys1password.com

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