Sean Lyngaas of CNN reports: Suspected Chinese government-backed hackers have breached computer systems of U.S. law firm Williams & Connolly, which has represented some of America’s most powerful politicians, as part of a larger spying campaign against multiple law firms, according to a letter the firm sent clients and a source familiar with the hack….
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Salesforce Tells Clients It Won’t Pay Hackers for Extortion
Margi Murphy, Jake Bleiberg, and Brody Ford report: Salesforce Inc. told customers Tuesday that it won’t pay a ransom demand from a hacker who claimed to have stolen a large amount of client data and threatened to publish it, according to an email seen by Bloomberg News. The company said in a security notification that…
U.K.: Two arrested over cyber attack which stole thousands of nursery children’s data (1)
There’s been an arrest in the Kido school cyberattack incident. itvX reports: Two people have been arrested after hackers stole information about thousands of children from a nursery chain. Two men aged 17 and 22 were arrested in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail, the Metropolitan Police said. They remain in…
California hospitals can escape fines if workers expose patient info
Scott Holland reports that a California state appeals court agreed with a hospital that it should not be held liable for employee misbehavior if they had a clear policy in place but the employee knowingly violated it: A state appeals panel has agreed hospitals can’t be sued if one of their employees posts confidential patient…
Harris Health discloses insider-wrongdoing breach that went on for a decade
Here is today’s reminder of the insider threat and why it may be challenging, but it’s still necessary, to monitor and audit employee access to patient records to spot any inappropriate access. Harris Health is notifying more than 5,000 patients that an employee — who was fired and referred to law enforcement when their wrongdoing…
Developing: Salesforce data leak site being seized? Looks like it.
I am guessing that the breachforums[.]hn leak site for ScatteredLAPSUS$Hunters is in the process of being seized. A whois lookup now shows that the name servers have been changed to hans.ns.cloudflare.com and surina.ns.cloudflare.com, which I am guessing are government accounts. The onion site appears intact. This post will be updated as the situation evolves.