CYBER SECURITY NEWS - Week of April 10, 2023
An online marketplace on which users trade discounted online accounts, license keys and malware has suffered a data leak exposing hundreds of thousands of sensitive records, according to vpnMentor.
Genova Burns, a mid-sized law firm based in New Jersey, has written to the affected Uber drivers that confidential information belonging to them, such as their social security and tax identification numbers, have been stolen in a data breach of its IT systems.
The company is working on restoring impacted services and infrastructure. At this point in the investigation, it confirmed that the hackers did manage to gain access to certain types of data stored on its systems. The nature and scope of the compromised data is being determined.?
The company did not share any details on the timing of the attack, about if any of the affected systems were encrypted, or if the attackers exfiltrated business and customer information during the incident.
This could mean highly sensitive data including “identification information and any criminal conviction data” could be in the hands of would-be extortionists.
The leaked content related to semiconductors is ‘facility measurement’ and ‘yield/defect, and the report states that if corporate secrets are entered in the question, the contents can be leaked to an unspecified number of people.