Collaborate Disseminate
He called himself ALTDOS when he first contacted DataBreaches in 2020. In 2021 he started contacting this site as DESORDEN. Then in 2024, he contacted this site as GHOSTR, and more recently, as 0mid16B. Under each new moniker, he denied being the indi… Continue reading Criminal hacker known as ALTDOS, DESORDEN, GHOSTR and 0mid16B arrested
After the Medusa gang reportedly demanded a $2 million ransom from UK healthcare and community services provider HCRG Care Group, HCRG confirmed they had a breach and said they were investigating. But they did not confirm that patient data and employee… Continue reading Medusa Unveils Another 50TB of Stolen Data from HCRG Care Group, Giving Greater Insight Into the Scope of the Breach
The Straits Times reports: The Belgian federal prosecutor said on Wednesday it had started a probe into alleged Chinese hacking of Belgium’s intelligence service VSSE in November 2023, confirming an earlier report by Belgian daily Le Soir. The pr… Continue reading Belgian prosecutor probes alleged Chinese hacking of intelligence service
Penny Horwood reports: The ransomware attack on Southern Water approximately one year ago by the Russia-linked Black Basta group has cost the utility provider more than £4.5 million to date, according to the utility company’s annual report. An extract … Continue reading Ransomware attack on Southern Water cost £4.5 million
In a recent report in The Register about an attack by Medusa on HCRG in the U.K., Iain Thomson reported, “For now, then, HCRG is still operational – a stark contrast to what happened in Texas last year, when the University Medical Center in… Continue reading UK: More details emerge about ransomware attack on HCRG by Medusa
Aman Shukla reports: Niva Bupa Health Insurance Company Ltd has recently informed exchanges that the company received an email from an anonymous sender claiming a potential customer data breach. The company is actively investigating the matter and impl… Continue reading Niva Bupa investigates alleged data leak after cyber threat
Novinite reports: The Ransomhouse hacker group has claimed responsibility for stealing data from the Supreme Administrative Court’s information systems. The group published documents, including lists of employee names, personal data, and leave applicat… Continue reading Hackers Claim Data Breach at Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court
Iain Thomson reports: HCRG Care Group, a private health and social services provider, has seemingly fallen victim to the Medusa ransomware gang, which is threatening to leak what’s claimed to be stolen internal records unless a substantial ransom… Continue reading Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider
ACS Information Age reports: Major Australian in vitro fertilisation (IVF) provider Genea is working to reassure distressed patients after confirming that an “unauthorised third party” has accessed its data in a breach whose scope is still becoming cle… Continue reading Major IVF provider Genea suffers ‘cyber incident’
It’s been a while since DataBreaches posted a story about unerased drives with tons of sensitive information being purchased at a flea market or auction, but here we are again, and this time in the Netherlands. Connor Jones reports: Robert Polet,… Continue reading Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market