Juan F. Luis Hospital CEO Darlene A. Baptiste says no personal data was stolen in the April cyberattack that forced the hospital offline for months, causing major billing delays, financial losses, and a massive system rebuild now nearly complete. Ernice Gilbert reports: The April cyberattack that crippled the Juan F. Luis Hospital’s electronic systems cost the facility…
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Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials
Joseph Cox reports: A hacking group that recently doxed hundreds of government officials, including from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has now built dossiers on tens of thousands of U.S. government officials, including NSA employees, a member of the group told 404 Media. The member said the group…
John Bolton Indictment Provides Interesting Details About Hack of His AOL Account and Extortion Attempt
Kim Zetter reports: The investigation into former national security advisor John Bolton’s handling of classified material stemmed in part from an admission Bolton made to the FBI in July 2021 that hackers – believed to be from Iran – had breached his private AOL email account and tried to extort him over classified information contained…
UK: ‘Catastrophic’ attack as Russians hack files on EIGHT MoD bases and post them on the dark web
Lydia Veljanovski and Sean Rayment report: Russian hackers have stolen hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as Ministry of Defence staff names and emails – and posted them on the dark web, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In what has been described as a ‘catastrophic’ security…
A business’s cyber insurance policy included ransom coverage, but when they needed it, the insurer refused to pay. Why?
Allardyce Bower Consulting paid more than $14,000 for a cyber insurance policy that included ransom coverage, but when they needed it, the insurer refused to pay. Had the business made a grave error in security? Over on SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice writes: Allardyce Bower Consulting (ABC) was the victim of a severe cyberattack attributed…
Before Their Telegram Channel Was Banned Again, ScatteredLAPSUS$Hunters Dropped Files Doxing Government Employees (2)
On October 16 and 17, the ScatteredLAPSUS$Hunters Telegram channel repeatedly violated Telegram’s TOS by leaking personal information on people — and in this case, information on employees of the Department of Justice (DOJ/FBI), U.S. Attorneys Office (DOJ/USAO), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). DataBreaches did not report on it…