A bug within T-Mobile's wsg.t-mobile.com API may have allowed attackers to access customer data that can be used to carry out phishing attacks or worse.
Make-up company Tarte Cosmetics exposed the personal information of nearly two million online customers after two of its online MongoDB databases were reportedly misconfigured for public access.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has opened an investigation into the massive Equifax data breach that exposed almost 700,000 British citizens and 145.5 million worldwide.
An offshore law firm representing wealthy clientele suffered a data breach earlier this year that reportedly is preparing for its sensitive financial information to be publicly leaked, in an incident similar to the 2015 Panama Papers case.
The Dark Overlord cybergang has at least temporarily moved away from attacking school districts and has turned back to threatening to release celebrity private information by hacking a London, UK plastic surgery firm.
The U.S. Department of Education issued a belated warning to the nation's school districts concerning cyberattacks that use threats of violence against students in an attempt to extort money from the district.
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