This Week in Data Breaches | UpGuard Newsletter

This Week in Data Breaches | UpGuard Newsletter

Here's your weekly digest of global data breaches. This week's newsletter covers breaches impacting Paramount, PurFoods, and Forever 21.


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Data Breaches

Paramount Discloses Data Breach Following Security Incident

🌎 Global | Bleeping Computer | Entertainment

American entertainment giant Paramount Global disclosed a data breach after its systems got hacked and attackers gained access to personally identifiable information (PII). Paramount said in breach notification letters signed by Nickelodeon Animation Studio EVP Brian Keane sent to affected individuals that the attackers had access to its systems between May and June 2023. Read More


Mom's Meals Parent Company, PurFoods, Discloses Data Breach

🇺🇸 United States  | Cybernews Food and Beverage

PurFoods (doing business as Mom's Meals) filed a data breach report with the Maine Attorney General’s Office, stating that attackers acquired sensitive info such as name or other personal identifier, together with financial account number or payment card (credit or debit) number, security and access codes, and passwords or PINs for the account. Read More


Forever 21 Data Breach Affects Half a Million People

🌎 Global | TechCrunch | Retail

Clothing giant Forever 21 said a data breach earlier in the year affects more than half a million individuals. A data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general said the fashion giant was hacked over a three-month period beginning early January 2023, during which intruders obtained files from its systems. This data included the personal information of current and former employees. Read More


Other Cybersecurity News

UK Agrees to Support Kuwait's Cybersecurity Center

🇰🇼 Kuwait | Dark Reading | Government

The governments of the United Kingdom and Kuwait have agreed on a deal whereby the UK will support the functions of the Kuwait National Center for Cybersecurity. The main goal of the center is to create a national umbrella that is responsible for securing and protecting information networks, telecommunications, information systems, and collecting and exchanging information operations using electronic means.


Critical Vulnerability Alert: VMware Aria Operations Networks at Risk from Remote Attacks

🌎 Global | The Hacker News | Technology

VMware has released software updates to correct two security vulnerabilities in Aria Operations for Networks that could be potentially exploited to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution. The most severe of the flaws is CVE-2023-34039 (CVSS score: 9.8), which relates to a case of authentication bypass arising as a result of a lack of unique cryptographic key generation.


FBI-Led Operation Duck Hunt Shuts Down QakBot Malware

🇺🇸 United States | Infosecurity Magazine | Government

The FBI has led a multinational law enforcement operation that has successfully dismantled QakBot, a leading malware loader used by cybercriminals to deploy ransomware. It then seized 52 servers, which it said would “permanently dismantle” the botnet, and redirected QakBot’s traffic to servers controlled by the Bureau, pointing victims to download an uninstaller.


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