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Eir Loses Unencrypted Laptop Containing 37,000 Customers’ Details

Eir is back in hot water again with the Data Protection Commissioner after the company issued a statement stating that it had lost an unencrypted staff laptop containing the details of 37,000 Eir customers. Eir has said that the data contained names, email addresses and customer account number, but that no financial details were compromised in the breach.


Eir is no stranger to data breaches, and has reported having multiple laptops with customer data lost or stolen in the past

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Ransomware Strain ‘SamSam’ Reportedly Earned Handlers Over €5.1m

A strain of ransomware titled SamSam has earned its handlers over 5.1 million euros to date, according to estimates, since it first began hitting enterprises in 2015. Security firm Sophos has released the data in a report, after tracking the Bitcoin addresses found on SamSam ransom notes and sample files.


The note displayed on PCs that were infected by SamSam ransomware, as seen by businesses, hospitals, schools, local councils and more

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Ticketmaster Ireland Among Those Affected in Huge Third-Party Data Breach

It has come to light that a recent breach disclosed by Ticketmaster UK may be much larger than initially reported, with not just the company’s UK site, but also their sites for Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey and even the US found to contain digital card-skimming code. Similar to the recent breach at Harvey Norman, this incident was caused by cyber criminals compromising a third-party service provider, not the site itself directly, leading security experts to believe many more websites may be at risk or have been compromised. This is part of a concerning new trend whereby cyber criminals are targeting third-party providers, who may deal with hundreds of websites, rather than attacking a website individually, exponentially increasing the damage inflicted.


Ticketmaster originally believed that only its UK website had been compromised, in a statement released last week

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Harvey Norman Among Companies Compromised in Third-Party Data Breach

Harvey Norman, the retail giant with 13 stores in the Republic and a further two stores in Northern Ireland, has admitted to customers that it suffered a data breach through a third-party tool used on its website. “We wish to alert you to a data breach that has occurred in the systems of a third-party website service provider, Typeform, which has resulted in the unauthorised access to some Harvey Norman data,” the company said earlier this week in a statement.


Harvey Norman was just one of the many companies affected by a breach at Typeform, a third-party website service provider

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