Las Vegas Students’ Personal Data Leaked, Post-Ransomware Attack

A researcher said he discovered an open data cache with names, grades, birthdates and more, after the Clark County School District refused to pay the ransom. Continue reading Las Vegas Students’ Personal Data Leaked, Post-Ransomware Attack

Cloud Leak Exposes 320M Dating-Site Records

A misconfigured, Mailfire-owned Elasticsearch server impacted 70 dating and e-commerce sites, exposing PII and details such as romantic preferences. Continue reading Cloud Leak Exposes 320M Dating-Site Records

Maze Ransomware Operators Claim Fairfax County Public Schools as Latest Victim

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is the latest US school division to be hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted some of its systems. “We currently believe we may have been victimized by cyber criminals who have been connected to dozens of ransomw… Continue reading Maze Ransomware Operators Claim Fairfax County Public Schools as Latest Victim

Security Researcher Discovers Over 50,000 Scanned Driver’s Licenses Exposed on Unsecured Amazon Server

A data leak containing 54,000 scanned New South Wales (NSW) driver’s licenses and various tolling notice statutory declarations were discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko last week. “More than 50K scanned driver licenses (front+back) and toll… Continue reading Security Researcher Discovers Over 50,000 Scanned Driver’s Licenses Exposed on Unsecured Amazon Server

REvil Ransomware Operators Claim Valley Health Systems as New Victim

Valley Health Systems have been targeted by REvil ransomware operators, according to Cyble security researchers. The discovery was made during routine monitoring for data leaks when researchers stumbled upon a post made by the ransomware gang. “Recentl… Continue reading REvil Ransomware Operators Claim Valley Health Systems as New Victim

Researcher Discloses 9 Leaky GitHub Repos Affecting 200K U.S. Residents – ‘And Possibly Many More’

A Dutch security researcher has stumbled across nine data leak incidents involving medical records belonging to cca 200,000 patients, and possibly many more – all due to developer blunders on GitHub repositories. Jelle Ursem, an ethical hacker from the… Continue reading Researcher Discloses 9 Leaky GitHub Repos Affecting 200K U.S. Residents – ‘And Possibly Many More’

Gigabytes of ‘sensitive’ internal Intel documents dumped online

Chip giant Intel is investigating the leak of what appears to be a 20 GB cache of internal documents, some of which are marked “confidential,” after it appeared on various messaging platforms and data hosting sites. An Intel spokesperson told CyberScoop that the data looks to be from the company’s Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for customers, partners and other external parties that have access. “We believe an individual with access downloaded and shared this data,” a spokesperson told CyberScoop. The cache, dubbed “Intel exconfidential Lake,” is mostly comprised of training manuals and other technical documents for various software and firmware development kits. However, a section marked “Intel Restricted Secret” contains data on a March 2020 version of Intel’s 2016 Kaby Lake Platforms Silicon Initialization Code, which works with Intel BIOS. A post in a Telegram channel highlighted some of the other contents in the cache: It is […]

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