I use The Guardian as one of my trusted “newspaper of record” sources here at Smart Thinking Solutions and as I have previously posted staff have been working from home and other systems compromised by a cyber attack that started last December: One of my trusted sources hit but a …
Two Twitter things
First Twitter is reported to have further reduced it’s online safety team – already severely reduced because of the job cuts Elon Musk initiated when he took over the company. A platform where hate speech of all kinds is easily distributed – including the position of Elon’s plane, Oh he …
Twitter user data is from an old data breach but Uber’s is a new one!
The vast amount of Twitter user data that has recently been exposed online is from a data breach from 2021, not a new data breach according to Twitter. Twitter confirms recent user data leak is from 2021 breach (bleepingcomputer.com) None of these big tech companies ever give the impression in …
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Medibank customers – the news just keeps getting worse
Hackers who breached the security at Medibank, one of the biggest health insurance companies in Australia, have released more personal information of Medibank’s clients online: Medibank prognosis gets worse after more patient data leaked • The Register
Water company leaks customer data
South Staffordshire PLC, the parent company of South Staffs Water and Cambridge Water, is warning that customer bank details may have been stolen by cyber criminals. This information and other customer details taken during the data breach may now be on the Dark Web. It has started informing the customers …
