The following is all machine translation of a notice from CERT-RO (Romania) SRI, in cooperation with CERT-RO and the Clinical Hospital No.1 CF Witting in Bucharest, recently investigated a cyber attack with the ransomware application PHOBOS, which targeted the entity’s servers in the field of health. Following the encryption of the data, the attackers requested…
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Mobile County Commission notifies employees of data breach; threat actors dump more data
WKRG reports an update to a ransomware attack on Mobile County that was previously reported in June after SuspectFile broke the story of Grief’s attack and claims. As previously addressed in statements published by Mobile-area media, Mobile County recently discovered suspicious activity related to some of its computer systems. We immediately shut down and launched…
Convenience Store Chain Can’t Shield Investigative Report on Data Breach From Discovery, Judge Rules
We often hear of firms having their counsel running incident response and contracting of forensics, etc., so that any reports would be protected by work product doctrine as well as attorney-client privilege. But if the attorney doesn’t word the contract carefully, any report may not be covered by the doctrine. We saw that in a…
Trump-loving Republicans snatch up “magacoins” — and quickly fall victim to data breach
Travis Gettys reports: More than 1,000 people — including Republican leaders and conservative media personalities — have already signed up for the pro-Donald Trump cryptocurrency magacoin. Poor security on a website associated with the cryptocurrency exposed users’ personal information, including passwords and IP addresses, and revealed that the vast majority of the magacoin produced has…
UK: Six years’ worth of personal data at risk in National Lottery Community Fund data breach
Stephen Delahunty reports: A data breach at the National Lottery Community Fund has left more than six years of contact and bank details exposed to fraudulent behaviour. The grant-giver has apologised after data provided to it between September 2013 and December 2019 by UK Portfolio, England funding and Building Better Opportunities customers was breached. The…
Education Industry at Higher Risk for IT Security Issues Due to Lack of Remote and Hybrid Work Policies
POWAY, Calif., July 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of software-free, 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB drives, today announced findings for the education sector from the Apricorn 2021 Global IT Security Survey. According to the survey, the education industry has a greater risk for cybersecurity breaches and data loss than other industries due to limited IT security…