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‘Maze’ ransomware threatens data exposure unless $6m ransom paid

US cable and wire manufacturer, Southwire, last week filed a civil suit against Maze’s mysterious makers in Georgia Federal court.

Once again, it reins supreme as the #1 smelliest old fish of a password on the list of ones that most frequently turn up in data breaches.

The telecomms company violates the EU’s GDPR by allegedly failing to fully authenticate people phoning up to access their accounts.

Researchers at VpnMentor claim that the TrueDialog data leak exposure could have compromised tens of millions of people.

A hacker is ransoming account data stolen from music streaming service Mixcloud, according to reports.

Adobe’s Magento Marketplace has suffered a data breach, the company has said in an email sent to customers.

The two men pointed to Uber’s $100K hush-money payment when they tried to extort Linkedin-owned Lynda… that instead called the cops.

NordVPN has been forced to admit that a hacker stole an expired TLS certificate key used to securely connect customers to its web servers.

A property management company owned by hotel chain Best Western has exposed 179 GB of sensitive travel information on thousands of travelers.

In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.