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The following is an automated machine translation. Matthew Garvey reports: The data of approximately 200,000 citizens of Sector 5 (such as CNP, first and last name, address, among others) were put up for sale by the hackers who launched a cyber attack … Continue reading Ransomware attack on Bucharest: data of hundreds of thousands of citizens involved
While many of us were waking up to the election results yesterday, at least one person was busy trying to extort the president-elect and current vice president. In their post, “kiberphant0m” posted this demand concerning AT&T call logs:… Continue reading Throwing caution to the winds, “kiberphant0m” tries to extort Trump and Harris
There’s an update to an incident affecting the City of Columbus, Ohio. That’s the one where a judge prohibited David L. Ross from talking to the media about it after the city sought to silence him after he began publicly refuting the city&#… Continue reading City of Columbus, Ohio cyberattack by Rhysida affected 500,000 residents
The Norwegian data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has imposed an administrative fine of NOK 250,000 [USD $22,669.69] on Grue municipality for breach of GDPR requirements. They explain: Personal data that should have been confidential was made avai… Continue reading No: Administrative fine issued to Grue municipality under GDPR
Funny how Russia doesn’t like it when someone interferes with their elections, huh? Daryna Antoniuk reports: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained a Moscow resident for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DD… Continue reading Russia arrests hacker accused of preventing electronic voting during local election
Iain Thomson reports: The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via the fitness app Strava. An investigation by Le Monde has shown that members of the Sec… Continue reading Fr: Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data
Harvey Cashore, Daniel Leblanc report: At the height of this year’s tax season, the Canada Revenue Agency discovered that hackers had obtained confidential data used by one of the country’s largest tax preparation firms, H&R Block Canad… Continue reading Tens of thousands of taxpayer accounts hacked as CRA repeatedly paid out millions in bogus refunds
Jonathan Greig reports: A cyberattack in May gave hackers access to the personal, financial and medical information of more than 47,000 residents living in Wichita County, Texas. County officials filed breach notification documents with regulators in T… Continue reading Texas county says 47,000 had SSNs, medical treatment info leaked during May cyberattack
Reuters reports: Italian police have placed four people under house arrest including Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, son of the late billionaire founder of Luxottica, as part of a probe into alleged illegal access to state databases, a source said on Satur… Continue reading Italy police arrest four over alleged illegal database access, source says
Hannah Fry reports: The personal information of more than 200,000 people in Los Angeles County was potentially exposed after a hacker used a phishing email to steal the login credentials of 53 public health employees, the county announced Friday. Detai… Continue reading Phishing attack hits L.A. County public health agency, jeopardizing 200,000-plus residents’ personal info