Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Crooks used simple phone scam to compromise vendor account, spilling personal and financial data belonging to more than 15,000 people A voice-phishing scam targeting one of Ericsson's service providers has exposed the personal data of more than 15,000 individuals after attackers sweet-talked an employee into handing over access.…

Fined $4m for mess, for which it blames unnamed archiving vendor's retention settings JP Morgan has been fined $4 million by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for deleting millions of email records dating from 2018 relating to its Chase Bank subsidiary.…

Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble Latitude Financial has blamed a supplier for leaking creds that caused vast PII leak Australian outfit Latitude Financial has taken itself offline, and even stopped serving customers, while it tries to clean up an attack on its systems.…