Collaborate Disseminate
Michelle Marchante provides today’s reminder of the insider threat: More than 2,000 patients at Jackson Health System had their personal data, including names, address and medical information, accessed in a lengthy breach that spanned nearly five… Continue reading Data breach of patient info ends in firing of Miami hospital employee
Randall Case reports: A compromise of an account has led to improper downloads of a large number of crash records, the Texas Department of Transportation announced Friday. On May 12, TxDOT identified unusual activity in its Crash Records Information S… Continue reading Texas DOT investigates breach of crash report records, sends notification letters
He’s just a frail-looking teenager, but he sent threatening emails to get his victims to pay his extortion demands. Today, 19 year-old Assumption College student Matthew Lane waived indictment and pleaded guilty in a Worcester courtroom to hackin… Continue reading PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty, released on personal recognizance bond
The government’s Rewards for Justice program has announced a $10 million reward for information on Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov (Максим Александрович Рудомётов), born in 1999 in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. Rudometov allegedly developed and ha… Continue reading Rewards for Justice offers $10M reward for info on RedLine developer or RedLine’s use by foreign governments
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Researchers say they have uncovered new evidence linking a long-running threat actor known as Bitter to the Indian government…. In a two-part report released this week, researchers from U.S.-based Proofpoint and Switzerl… Continue reading New evidence links long-running hacking group to Indian government
The following is a machine translation from a report in Ukrainian by the country’s national police cyber department: A 35-year-old man hacked more than 5,000 customer accounts of a world-famous hosting company to generate cryptocurrency on the or… Continue reading Zaporizhzhia Cyber Police Exposes Hacker Who Caused Millions in Losses to Victims by Mining Cryptocurrency
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The German data protection authority (BfDI) has fined Vodafone GmbH, the telecommunications company’s German subsidiary, €45 million ($51.4 million) for privacy and security violations. “Due to malicious employees in … Continue reading Germany fines Vodafone $51 million for privacy, security breaches
Bill Toulas reports: Google has observed hackers claiming to be the ShinyHunters extortion group conducting social engineering attacks against multi-national companies to steal data from organizations’ Salesforce platforms. According to Google… Continue reading Google: Hackers target Salesforce accounts in data extortion attacks
Justin Ling reports: For years, cybersecurity professionals, watchdogs, and government agencies have warned that a malicious cyberattack on the US power grid could be devastating. With ample evidence that state-sponsored hacking groups are eyeing the d… Continue reading The US Grid Attack Looming on the Horizon
Brandon Vigliarolo reports: The US government’s Login.gov identity verification system could be one cyberattack, or just a routine IT hiccup, away from serious trouble, say auditors, because it hasn’t shown its backup testing policy is actu… Continue reading US govt login portal could be one cyberattack away from collapse, say auditors