RFE/RL reports: The United States has extradited to Russia a Russian national sentenced to nine years in prison for cybercrimes, the Russian news agency RIA cited Russia’s Interior Ministry as saying on September 28. Aleksei Burkov was sentenced in June last year by a U.S. district court in Virginia for operating two websites that sold stolen, mostly…
Author: Dissent
Mx: El Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (Inmegen) hit by cyberattack
The same group of threat actors who recently hit the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), are now claiming to have hit a Mexican government health agency that is involved in COVID testing or research: El Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (Inmegen). Limited data has been publicly dumped so far, but it appears to include…
MD: Groove threat actors claim to have hit Robinwood Orthopaedic
Robinwood Orthopaedic Specialty Center in Maryland is a division of the Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics. They have three locations in Frederick and Hagerstown. On some date as yet unknown to DataBreaches.net, they were allegedly hit by a cyberattack. Their name and screencaps of purported files were added to Groove’s leaks site on September 13. Robinwood…
A multi-party data breach creates 26x the financial damage of single-party breach
HelpNet Security reports: Cyentia Institute and RiskRecon released a research that quantifies how a multi-party data breach impacts many organizations in today’s interconnected digital world. The study is based on an analysis of 897 multi-party breaches involving three or more interrelated companies. Here are just two of the findings that HelpNet highlights: A median ripple…
Safeway reports theft of COVID-19 vaccine records in Washington, D.C.
Russell Redman 1 reported the following on September 21: COVID-19 vaccine records were stolen from an off-site vaccination clinic held by Safeway in Washington, D.C. Parent company Albertsons Cos. said Tuesday that, on Sept. 8, an employee who facilitated Safeway’s COVID vaccine clinic at the Fort Stanton Recreation Center at 1812 Erie St. SE in…
Desorden Group claims to have stolen 200 GB of data from ABX Express
DataBreaches.net has been contacted by a threat actor or group calling themselves “Desorden Group” (“Desorden”). The group claims to have hacked ABX Express Enterprise servers in Malaysia on September 23. We have stolen more than 200 gigabytes of files and databases, tens of millions of customers personal data from their servers, wiped their drives and…