Collaborate Disseminate
The D.C. Board of Elections appears to have revised its estimate of how much data was accessible to a threat actor who listed it for sale on a dark web site. The listing had claimed to have 600k lines of voter registration records from the D.C. Board o… Continue reading D.C. Board of Elections revises its estimate of data breach — could be entire voter roll
The announcement from Europol we’ve been waiting for: This week, law enforcement and judicial authorities from eleven countries delivered a major blow to one of the most dangerous ransomware operations of recent years. This action, coordinated at… Continue reading Ragnar Locker ransomware gang taken down by international police swoop — Europol
The following is from a machine translation of an article by Luis F. Duran that appeared at El Mundo on October 18: Last Thursday, French Justice released two Spanish hackers, aged 26 and 28, arrested last summer on charges of attacking 26 French compa… Continue reading France frees the two biggest Spanish hackers
Carly Page reports: An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web portal used by the notorious RagnarLocker ransomware group, TechCrunch has learned. A message on the RagnarLocker website now states that, “this service has… Continue reading RagnarLocker ransomware dark web site seized in international sting
Lawrence Abrams reports: A hacker has leaked an additional 4.1 million stolen 23andMe genetic data profiles for people in Great Britain and Germany on a hacking forum. Earlier this month, a threat actor leaked the stolen data of 1 million Ashkenazi Jew… Continue reading Hacker leaks millions of new 23andMe genetic data profiles
On October 6, DataBreaches reported a breach allegedly containing more than 600,000 lines of data on registered voters in D.C., where, according to the threat actors who listed it, each line represented one voter’s records. Although there may hav… Continue reading UPDATE: D.C. Board of Elections data breach contained fewer than 4,000 D.C. voters’ data
Indiana Attorney General Rokita led a coalition of 33 attorneys general in a multi-state investigation and litigation against health care clearinghouse Imnediata stemming from a breach disclosed in 2019. Background In January 2019, HHS OCR alerted Inme… Continue reading Inmediata settles multi-state litigation for $1.14 million; will improve data security and breach notification practices
Margot Patrick reports: Equifax’s (EFX) U.K. arm was fined around $13.6 million Friday for failing to protect the data of millions of British customers in a 2017 hack of the credit-reporting company. The British arm outsourced customer-data processing … Continue reading Equifax’s U.K. Arm Fined Over 2017 Data Breach
The AvosLocker ransomware leak site has not been seen for months, but the government is providing an update on them based on its investigations as recently as May 2023. In May, DataBreaches reported on the Bluefield College breach by an affiliate of Av… Continue reading FBI and CISA Release Update on AvosLocker Advisory
Tim Starks writes: A trio of internet giants revealed on Tuesday that they had fought off an “unprecedented” distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack — used to disrupt the availability of systems like websites and services — that registered as the b… Continue reading The largest cyberattack of its kind recently happened. Here’s how.