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2nd Singtel Business hit by Cyberattack – Dialog Group’s Data Leaked

September 10, 2022

The Dialog Group, an Australia-based IT services consulting company, has been hit by a cybersecurity attack. The second Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) owned business to report a breach in over two weeks. Singtel stated there is no evidence there is any link between this incident and the recent Optus cyberattack. Dialog’s systems are completely independent from NCS, Optus and Singtel.

An unauthorized third party may have accessed company data, potentially affecting fewer than 20 clients and 1,000 current Dialog employees as well as former employees.

Optus, Aussie Telecom Firm, Hit In Cyberattack

September 22, 2022

Optus, the Australian unit of telecoms firm Singapore Telecommunications is investigating the unauthorized access of current and former customers’ information.
Optus said in a statement it had immediately shut down the attack after discovering it, and that payment details and account passwords had not been compromised.
However, information that may have been exposed include customers’ names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and, for a subset of customers, addresses, ID document numbers such as driver’s license or passport numbers.

Russian Streaming Giant Suffers Major Data Leak Impacting 44M Customers

August 28, 2022

Russian streaming giant START said on Sunday that the personal information of its customers was leaked during a cyberattack. The company did not disclose how many users were affected by the breach. The Russian Telegram channel Information Leaks — which first publicized the incident — reports the 72 GB database contains data on 44 million customers. The leaked information includes usernames, email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses, users’ countries of registration, subscription start and end dates, and the last login to the service.

START, which sells films and TV shows in more than 174 countries, is one of many Russian companies that have suffered data leaks and hacks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The data breach allegedly affects viewers worldwide, including 24.6 million users from Russia, 2.3 million from Kazakhstan, 2.1 million from China, and 1.7 million from Ukraine.

Attack on Satellite Firm Viasat Interrupted Wind Power Generation Systems

February 24, 2022

Satellite communications giant Viasat said a “multifaceted and deliberate” attack hit “several thousand” customers in Ukraine the same day Russia attacked. The Feb. 24 incident, which also hit tens of thousands of other fixed broadband customers across Europe, was localized to a single consumer-oriented partition of the KA-SAT network operated on Viasat’s behalf by a Eutelsat subsidiary, Skylogic.

A targeted denial of service attack (DoS) first ended up discovered after high volumes of focused, malicious traffic made it difficult for modems to remain online, said Viasat’s incident summary. The traffic emanated from several SurfBeam2 and SurfBeam 2+ modems and/or associated customer premise equipment physically located within Ukraine.

Cyberattack Cuts Service for Vodafone Portugal

February 7, 2022

Vodafone Portugal, one of the country’s top telecommunications companies, said Tuesday it suffered a cyberattack, while no confidential customer ended up compromised.
“A deliberate and malicious cyberattack aimed at causing damage and disruption” was underway, the company said.
The attack Feb. 7 affected the company’s 4G and 5G services, fixed line and SMS services, and digital and voice customer services, the company said.
The company hadn’t received any ransom demand that would indicate it was hit by a ransomware attack. The CEO also said he had no indications the attackers had accessed subscriber information or other sensitive data. Specifics of the attack remain unknown.

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