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Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA), the insurer handling injury claims for mineworkers and metalworkers, is investigating an alleged theft of 1.68 million claim records. A hacker claims to hold 366GB of its data.

Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

Israeli ad company Discover-Tech's advertising platform was reportedly used as a zero-click spyware delivery channel by the Candiru threat actor, enabling device fingerprinting, tracking and targeted infection.

Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

Attackers remotely took control of refrigeration controllers at hundreds of French supermarkets on the night of October 11, warming fridges and freezers up to 50°C and forcing stores to discard food. The entry point was a Danfoss store-controller that maintenance firms manage remotely.

Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

TFG London, owner of Hobbs, Phase Eight and Whistles, discovered a cybersecurity incident on October 11 that took several IT systems offline and delayed customer orders. Incident response and business continuity plans were activated and external cybersecurity specialists brought in. Scope of any customer data compromise is still unknown.

Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

TFG London, owner of Hobbs, Phase Eight and Whistles, disclosed a cyber-attack on its websites and IT systems across three UK retail chains that may have compromised customer personal data. It follows a recent attack on Asos.

Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

Funen-based IT services firm Pays ApS had its authorised access to Denmark's Central Register of Persons (CPR) abused via an account protected by the password '123456'. The intrusion affected data on 8.8 million people; the attacker ran about 14 million automated searches between Sept 10 and Sept 20, and was detected Oct 2. Pays' website is offline and its managing director confirmed the access was exploited.