There are always a ton of articles at the end of every year recapping what went wrong. Over on TechCrunch, Zack Whittaker and Carly Page have their annual list of breaches handled poorly. This year’s list includes 23andMe, Change Healthcare, Synnovis, Snowflake, Columbus Ohio, Salt Typhoon, Moneygram, and HotTopic. DataBreaches generally agrees with their recap,…
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Brazilian Man Charged With Making Extortionate Threats To Publicize Stolen Data Obtained By Unlawful Computer Intrusion
December 23, Newark, N.J. – A citizen and resident of Brazil was charged with making extortionate threats to publicize data stolen from the Brazilian subsidiary of a New Jersey company, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, of Curitiba, Brazil was charged with four counts of extortionate threats involving information obtained…
Japan Airlines recovers from cyberattack, confirms no customer data leaks
Financial Express reports: Japan Airlines (JAL) has resolved a system malfunction caused by a large-scale cyberattack, assuring the customers that no data breaches or virus infections have taken place. The ticket sales for same day flights have started again. However, certain specific domestic flight services such as an upgrade option, airport standby continues to be unavailable….
Clop ransomware is now extorting 66 Cleo data-theft victims
Bill Toulas reports: The Clop ransomware gang started to extort victims of its Cleo data theft attacks and announced on its dark web portal that 66 companies have 48 hours to respond to the demands. The cybercriminals announced that they are contacting those companies directly to provide links to a secure chat channel for conducting ransom payment negotiations….
Journalist faces Crime Branch action for exposing data breach, Kerala’s press fights back
The Hindustan Times reports: The Kerala Police Crime Branch’s move to seize the mobile phone of Aniru Ashokan, a reporter from a Malayalam daily, has triggered a wave of support from local journalists across the state. According to PTI, the Crime Branch’s action came after the journalist reported on the alleged breach of sensitive data…
Pittsburgh Regional Transit dealing with ransomware attack that slowed light rail system last week
One unfortunate holiday tradition seems to be that ransomware groups will attack at holiday times when entities are less likely to have full IT support from staff. One attack, however, reportedly started last week. Ed Blazina reports: What Pittsburgh Regional Transit last week thought was a computer glitch that affected rail service has turned out…