Collaborate Disseminate
Vivienne Serret reports: Hackers broke into the computer network of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice in Tallahassee, which runs the state’s juvenile detention centers and programs to steer troubled kids away from crime. It led to a cont… Continue reading Florida Department of Juvenile Justice computer network hacked
A recent listing on LockBit’s leak site about Crinetics Pharmaceuticals seemed unusual. It included a disclaimer: “Those responsible for the exfiltration of data belonging to this victim have no association, indirect or direct, with the Loc… Continue reading Threat actors walked away from a $1.8 million offer because the victim talked to the media?!
Richard Chirgwin reports: Diabetes WA has disclosed a data breach affecting people who engaged with its telehealth service. In a breach notice posted Tuesday, the organisation said a “third party” gained “access to the personal information of some R… Continue reading Au: Diabetes WA reveals data breach
City of Hope updated its breach disclosure. DataBreaches can now reveal some previously undisclosed details about the 2023 incident. In December 2023, City of Hope, a cancer treatment center in Duarte, California, notified HHS that it had experienced a… Continue reading City of Hope updates a breach disclosure, reports 827,149 patients affected in ransomware attack last year
Some more analysis of 2023 breaches. Sophos reports that for more than 150 incident response (IR) cases it handled in 2023, cybercriminals abused remote desktop protocol (RDP) in 90% of attacks. This was the highest incidence of RDP abuse since Sophos … Continue reading Cybercriminals Abused Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in 90% of Attacks Handled by Sophos Incident Response in 2023
As of this morning, more than a dozen rehabilitation hospitals have disclosed a breach with unauthorized access to their systems between January 16 and February 4. The intrusion was discovered on February 1. The attack resulted in access to patient dat… Continue reading Ernest Health rehabilitation hospitals notify patients of ransom attack in January (1)
Sean Lyngaas and Darya Tarasova report: Within hours of opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death in February in a Russian prison, a group of anti-Kremlin hackers went looking for revenge. Using their access to a computer network tied to Russia’s priso… Continue reading Hackers stole Russian prisoner database to avenge death of Navalny
Everything old is leaked again? First we learn that data of 70+ million AT&T customers that was originally leaked in 2021 has been leaked again. Now it’s the 2021 data leak from Atraf? Waqas of HackRead reports: Atraf, a popular Israeli LGBTQ… Continue reading Israeli LGBTQ App Atraf Faces Data Leak, 700,000 Users Affected
WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, Limited (Wuhan XRZ), a Wuhan, China-based Ministry of State Security (MSS) front company that has s… Continue reading Treasury Sanctions China-Linked Hackers for Targeting U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Jan Vermeulen reports: The Information Regulator has slapped credit bureau TransUnion with an enforcement notice following a data breach on 18 March 2022. N4ugthySecTU, the group that claimed responsibility for the attack, alleged that they exfiltrated… Continue reading Major credit bureau slapped with enforcement notice for data breach in South Africa