The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cybersecurity news weekly. Who am I? I\u2019m Connor Madsen, a Webroot Threat Research Analyst and a guy with a passion for all things security. Any questions? Just ask.<\/p>\n
This week it was revealed that Panera failed to disclose<\/a> or resolve a data breach affecting nearly 37 million customers for more than eight months. When researchers initially reached out to the company in August of last year, Panera officials believed the e-mail to be spam and ignored it until the researcher followed up about the leak. While a resolution has finally been put forth by Panera, their attempts to downplay the leak to the media and extreme delay in taking action are unacceptable for an organization of that size.<\/p>\n A regional power utilities system in India was recently breached and now finds their billing data held hostage for nearly 20 Bitcoins. While officials are the cause of the attack, the billing systems are already back to normal, as there were several methods for backing up the data. The affected site was one of two that monitor many districts\u2019 electricity billing throughout the region.<\/p>\n Under Armour announced this past week that their MyFitnessPal app had been subject to a data breach potentially affecting nearly 150 million users.<\/a> Fortunately, the breach seems to contain only usernames, email addresses, and passwords for the app. Customers\u2019 more sensitive information is stored beneath another layer of encryption. Under Armour has since released a full FAQ site along with a public statement in less than a week from the initial discovery.<\/p>\nIndian Utility Company Facing Ransom<\/h2>\n
Under Armour Fitness Tracking App Breached<\/h2>\n
Employee Info Leaking from Live Chat Widgets<\/h2>\n