Switzerland

Flaw in Swiss marketplace Ricardo exploited, exposing names, addresses and phone numbers of about 890,000 accounts

Switzerland's SMG group announced on October 9 that its marketplace Ricardo detected suspicious server activity on October 7 and found personal data of about 890,000 user accounts was exposed; the vulnerability that allowed the access has been fixed .

Switzerland's FDPIC said PK Softech AG reported a cyberattack on its IT infrastructure on October 8, with data extracted from several pension funds including the federal pension fund Publica, and it opened a formal investigation on October 22 .