Michelle Marchante provides today’s reminder of the insider threat: More than 2,000 patients at Jackson Health System had their personal data, including names, address and medical information, accessed in a lengthy breach that spanned nearly five years. The data breach was conducted by a Jackson employee who accessed the information to promote a personal healthcare…
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Texas DOT investigates breach of crash report records, sends notification letters
Randall Case reports: A compromise of an account has led to improper downloads of a large number of crash records, the Texas Department of Transportation announced Friday. On May 12, TxDOT identified unusual activity in its Crash Records Information System (CRIS) and further investigation revealed the activity originated from an account that was compromised and…
PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty, released on personal recognizance bond
He’s just a frail-looking teenager, but he sent threatening emails to get his victims to pay his extortion demands. Today, 19 year-old Assumption College student Matthew Lane waived indictment and pleaded guilty in a Worcester courtroom to hacking an unnamed telecom company and an unnamed edtech vendor, widely known to be PowerSchool. As per the…
Rewards for Justice offers $10M reward for info on RedLine developer or RedLine’s use by foreign governments
The government’s Rewards for Justice program has announced a $10 million reward for information on Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov (Максим Александрович Рудомётов), born in 1999 in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. Rudometov allegedly developed and has sold the infostealer malware known as RedLine. “Rudometov has regularly accessed and managed the technical infrastructure of RedLine , is…
New evidence links long-running hacking group to Indian government
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Researchers say they have uncovered new evidence linking a long-running threat actor known as Bitter to the Indian government…. In a two-part report released this week, researchers from U.S.-based Proofpoint and Switzerland-based Threatray said their new findings are based on a series of campaigns conducted between October 2024 and April 2025. During this period, Bitter —…
Zaporizhzhia Cyber Police Exposes Hacker Who Caused Millions in Losses to Victims by Mining Cryptocurrency
The following is a machine translation from a report in Ukrainian by the country’s national police cyber department: A 35-year-old man hacked more than 5,000 customer accounts of a world-famous hosting company to generate cryptocurrency on the organization’s servers. The defendant faces up to 15 years in prison. Police officers determined that a 35-year-old native…