Nikkei Inc., the Japanese media group that owns The Nikkei and the Financial Times, disclosed a breach of a cloud service used for system development. On October 7, attackers used previously stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access. As of October 16, about 1.83 million items of personal information had leaked. The company reported t…
Japanese media group Nikkei (publisher of The Nikkei and the Financial Times) disclosed a data breach affecting about 1.83 million records held in a cloud service used for system development. On the morning of October 7, attackers used previously compromised credentials to access the service. About 1.68 million records held only non-ident…
Nikkei Inc. disclosed a third data breach in about a month, exposing 1.83 million records stored in the cloud. Attackers used stolen credentials to access a development system in the early hours of October 7. About 150,000 records contained at least one of: full names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers or dates of birth, …
A modular phishing campaign targets YouTube creators with personalized sponsorship offers from fake brand representatives. One variant impersonates Hollyland, a maker of wireless video transmission equipment, and also Nike and Spotify. Victims are led through a convincing fake collaboration platform to a bogus "Sign in with Google" page t…
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