A user on a popular hacker forum is selling three databases that purportedly contain user credentials and device data stolen from three different Android VPN services – SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, and ChatVPN – with 21 million user records being sold in total. Read more on CyberNews.com. The seller, who has been a member of the forum…
Month: February 2021
Universal Health Services lost $67 million in cyberattack recovery
Ginger Christ reports: Universal Health Services said Thursday that the company lost $67 million in the second half of 2020 as a result of a September cyberattack. The Sept. 29 malware attack caused King of Prussia, Pa.-based UHS to temporarily take all of its U.S. information technology networks offline, including systems for medical records, laboratories and pharmacies. Servers…
Dozens of institutional abuse victims to sue over data breach
Claire Simpson reports an update to an email gaffe breach that I had characterized as one of the worst breaches in 2020. I had been somewhat surprised to later read that four out of five victims groups were backing Brendan McAllister. I am not surprised that at least some of those exposed by the breach…
The Jones Day dump contains prescription drug records. Who’s notifying those patients of the breach?
By now, many are aware that Jones Day, a giant law firm, had some of its files stolen due to vulnerabilities in the standalone file transfer administration system by Accellion. Jones Day is one of dozens of Accellion clients that have found themselves investigating and dealing with breaches affecting their businesses and clients. The Jones…
T-Mobile discloses data breach after SIM swapping attacks
Sergiu Gatlan reports: American telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after an unknown number of customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. […] In a data breach notice sent to impacted customers on February 9, 2021, and filed with US attorney generals’ offices, T-Mobile revealed that an unknown attacker gained access to customers’ account…
Zee5 Data Breach: PII of 9 Million Zee5 Users’ Allegedly Leaked Online (updated with denial)
Manikanta Immanni reports: Zee5, an Indian OTT platform with over 150 million users had a part of its userbase’s data leaked again. Found by Rajshekhar Rajaharia, an internet security researcher, over 9 million users of Zee5 allegedly leaked online earlier this week. This is the second time Zee5 in news for a data breach, with the first…