10 Jul 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 7/10/2024

Roblox vendor data breach exposes dev conference attendee info  Roblox announced late last week that it suffered a data breach impacting attendees of the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Roblox Developer Conference attendees. Roblox is an online gaming and game creation platform popular among younger audiences that design, create, and share games with a large community of over 200 million active users. The company hosts an annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC) event that helps developers network, learn, and share…
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01 Jul 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 7/1/2024

Former IT employee accessed data of over 1 million US patients Geisinger, a prominent healthcare system in Pennsylvania, has announced a data breach involving a former employee of Nuance, an IT services provider contracted by the organization. Geisinger is a non-profit organization that operates 134 care sites, ten hospitals, and the Geisinger Health Plan, serving a total of 1.2 million people. It employs 26,000 staff, including 1,600 doctors, and is considered one of Pennsylvania’s most…
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03 Jun 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 6/3/2024

Cloud company Snowflake denies that reported breach originated with its products  The cloud storage provider Snowflake is denying that its products were to blame for an apparent data breach impacting the company’s clients, including Ticketmaster and Santander Bank. This week, hackers with the ShinyHunters group claimed to have stolen personal data belonging to 560 million Ticketmaster customers and 30 million Santander customers. On Friday, researchers at the firm Hudson Rock published an analysis of online interactions with hackers who claimed they…
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04 Jan 2021
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 01/04/2021

Apply brakes to Apple Car expectations, analyst says The idea of an Apple Car landing in showrooms hit the headlines again last week when a Reuters report suggested the tech giant is aiming to have an electric vehicle (EV) with autonomous capabilities ready for market in 2024. But a new research note from respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests the car’s precise design specifications have yet to be decided, adding that any such vehicle may not arrive until 2028…
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