The Economic Times reports: Utilities under fire: Nova Scotia Power cyberattack raises alarm Nova Scotia Power and its parent company, Emera, are scrambling to contain the fallout of a cyberattack on critical infrastructure that disrupted IT systems but spared physical operations. The cybersecurity breach came to light on April 25, when the utility discovered unauthorized…
Georgia hospital defeats data-tracking lawsuit
Giles Bruce reports: A Georgia hospital has defeated a class-action lawsuit over the use of data-tracking tools on its websites, Law.com reported. A state court granted Moultrie, Ga.-based Colquitt Regional Medical Center’s motion to dismiss the complaint, which alleged the hospital unlawfully collected patients’ protected health information and transmitted it to third parties like Meta’s Facebook, according…
60K BTC Wallets Tied to LockBit Ransomware Gang Leaked
CoinPedia reports: “Don’t do crime. CRIME IS BAD. xoxo from Prague.” That’s the message left behind after hackers gave LockBit – a ransomware gang known for extorting millions. Yes, they just got a brutal taste of their own medicine. In a surprising breach, nearly 60,000 Bitcoin wallet addresses tied to LockBit’s operations were leaked online….
UK: Legal Aid Agency hit by cyber security incident
Henry Vaughan reports: The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said it is working with the National Crime Agency and National Cyber Security Centre to investigate the data breach. In a letter sent to law firms last week, which has been seen by Sky News, the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) warned it had identified a “security incident”. The organisation,…
Public notice for individuals affected by an information security breach in the Social Services, Health Care and Rescue Services Division of Helsinki
An internal information security breach has been identified in the Social Services, Health Care and Rescue Services Division of the City of Helsinki. The breach concerns client data from certain Family Law Services, which between 2012 and 2019 was stored on the Division’s internal network without adequate access restrictions. No external parties have had access…
PowerSchool paid a hacker’s extortion demand, but now school district clients are being extorted anyway (3)
Here’s today’s reminder not to waste your money paying criminals to delete data. After PowerSchool became aware of a hack in December 2024, they paid the then-unnamed attacker(s) to delete data. They subsequently informed their affected clients that they had observed the data deletion and believed that the data had been deleted, and that there…