DPA reports: French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has been hit by a cyberattack, the agency said in a statement on Saturday. The attack on AFP’s IT system, which partly affected transmission technology to customers, was discovered on Friday. It is unclear who was behind the attack. AFP’s technical department, assisted by the National Cybersecurity…
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Richmond Community Schools reports ransomware attack; Scranton School District paid ransom in March
One new attack on a k-12 district and an update on a previous one. WHIO reports that Richmond Community Schools in Indiana posted to social media that student and staff information in the PowerSchool software system was breached in a ransomware attack on Friday. “While there is no current evidence of misuse, RCS has shut…
All Dutch police officers’ contact details stolen in cyberattack
Sam Clark reports: The names of all Dutch police officers have been stolen in a cyberattack, the country’s justice minister said today. David van Weel, minister of justice and security in the Netherlands, said in a letter to the Dutch House of Representatives this afternoon that the chief of police informed him yesterday that “work-related contact details”…
Graybill parts ways with Palomar Health Medical Group following data breach
Rhea Caoile reports: Graybill Medical Group has terminated its agreement with Palomar Health Medical Group and will go independent beginning November 10. The decision was prompted by a data security incident that affected PHMG’s system in May. Russell Riehl, PHMG’s interim CEO, confirmed that they received notice from Graybill in August. […] Dr. Alejandro Paz, the…
Three IRGC Cyber Actors Indicted for ‘Hack-and-Leak’ Operation Designed to Influence the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Iranian nationals, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) employees, Masoud Jalili, 36, also known as, مسعود جلیلی, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, 34, also known as, سید علی آقامیری, and Yaser Balaghi, 37, also known as, یاسر بلاغی, with a conspiracy with others known and…
Meta fined $101.5M for 2019 breach that exposed hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords
Natasha Lomas reports: Reset your clocks: Meta has been hit with yet another privacy penalty in Europe. On Friday, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced a reprimand and a €91 million fine — around $101.5M USD at current exchange rates — after concluding a multi-year investigation into a 2019 security breach by Facebook’s parent company. […]…