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Seen on Homeland Security Today: FBI and US Coast Guard investigators have found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of an oil supertanker as it was approaching the Texas coast this summer, according to US officials familiar with the m… Continue reading Hackers Breached Propulsion System of U.S.-Bound Oil Tanker
Takashi Nakamichi and Ryo Horiuchi report that Daiwa Securities, Japan’s second-largest brokerage and investment banking firm, is responding to a breach at one of its vendors. Daiwa Securities Group said information on as many as 110,000 clients … Continue reading Daiwa Securities says info on 110,000 clients may have been leaked in vendor incident
Luis Monzon reports: Ransomware-as-a-service group The Gentlemen threatened to leak data belonging to insurance companies LegalWise and Samwumed, with more South African companies likely to follow. The Gentlemen is one of the most active cybercriminal … Continue reading Ransomware group threatens to leak customer data from top insurance companies in South Africa
Lee Hyo-jin reports: President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday ordered a thorough investigation into a string of recent data breaches at financial institutions, as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cyberattacks increasingly target them. According to Cheong … Continue reading South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung orders thorough probe into data breaches at local banks
The Slate Valley Unified School District in Fair Haven, Vermont, has been responding to a security incident since September 3. On October 2, Kairos threat actors contacted DataBreaches to alert us to the incident and their response to the district̵… Continue reading Slate Valley Unified School District voted not to pay ransom demand; Kairos likely to leak data
The following is a machine translation of a press release by Italy’s privacy guarantor: Healthcare data: The Privacy Guarantor fines IQVIA 7 million euros. The data of one million patients of 800 family doctors are not anonymous. The Italian Dat… Continue reading The Italian Italy’s Data Protection Authority fines IQVIA €7 million over data protection breach
Jana Winter, Raphael Satter, and A.J. Vicens report: A key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee, was detained this week in Jordan, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Two of … Continue reading ShinyHunters hacker “Rey,” allegedly involved in FBI data theft, detained in Jordan
Justin Doubleday reports: The Department of Homeland Security is preparing this year to award a major cloud, cybersecurity and network services contract aimed at further centralizing the management of IT services across DHS. In a notice posted to Sam.g… Continue reading DHS readies major cyber contract
IAPP reports: Regulator inquiries into major AI companies’ cybersecurity practices are ramping up. A day after reports surfaced about the likely escalation of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission probe into OpenAI and other developers, California Atto… Continue reading OpenAI faces California DOJ subpoena amid growing cybersecurity incident notices
Matt Bracken reports: A Federal Reserve Board staffer mishandled sensitive classified files and triggered hundreds of data loss prevention alerts leading up to their retirement, the agency’s inspector general revealed in a new report. The security issu… Continue reading Fed employee repeatedly removed sensitive files, watchdog finds