This Week in Data Breaches | UpGuard Newsletter
Here's your weekly digest of global data breaches. This week's newsletter covers breaches impacting Stanford University , Marina Bay Sands , and Sumo Logic .
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Data Breaches
???? United States | CPO Magazine | Higher Education
Stanford University is investigating an alleged data breach after the Akira ransomware gang claimed it breached the institution and exfiltrated 430 GB of data, including private information and confidential documents. The group demanded an undisclosed ransomware amount and threatened to leak the stolen data if the university failed to comply. Akira typically demands extortion amounts ranging from $200,000 to $4 million. Read More
???? Singapore | Infosecurity Magazine | Hotels and Hospitality Services
The Singapore-based luxury complex Marina Bay Sands revealed it was hit by a security incident that exposed the personal data of 665,000 customers. According to a statement published by the resort, the incident occurred on October 19-20 and involved unauthorized third-party access to its non-casino customers’ loyalty program membership data. The leaked data included personally identifiable information (PII), such as customers’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, country of residence, membership numbers, and tiers. Read More
???? United States | TechCrunch | Technology
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Sumo Logic, a U.S.-based cloud data analytics and log analysis company, urges users to reset API keys after discovering a security breach.?Sumo Logic says there is no indication that the company’s networks or systems have been impacted and said customer data “has been and remains encrypted.” However, the company advises customers to “rotate credentials that are either used to access Sumo Logic or that you have provided to Sumo Logic to access other systems.” Read More
Other Cybersecurity News
?? Global | UpGuard | Vulnerabilities
First detected by the?Microsoft Threat Intelligence team?in early November 2023, the zero-day vulnerability tracked as?CVE-2023-47246 affects SysAid on-premises IT service management systems. This vulnerability has been exploited by a known threat actor to gain unauthorized access, move through the system, and achieve code execution. Read More
?? Global | The Hacker News | Technology
Meta-owned WhatsApp is officially rolling out a new privacy feature in its messaging service called "Protect IP Address in Calls" that masks users' IP addresses to other parties by relaying the calls through its servers.?The core idea is to make it harder for bad actors in the call to infer a user's location by securely relaying the connection through WhatsApp servers. Read More
?? Global | Security Week | Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI has confirmed that ChatGPT and its API experienced a major outage on Wednesday due to what appeared to be a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The artificial intelligence organization first reported seeing problems with its LLM-based chatbot and API on November 7. The disruptions were initially described as partial outages, but a major outage was reported on November 8. Read More