Jessica Lyons reports: Lawmakers on Thursday grilled Microsoft president Brad Smith about the Windows giant’s businesses dealing in China — and the super-corp’s repeated security failings — at a time when Beijing-backed spies are accused of breaking into Microsoft-hosted email accounts of American government officials. A US House committee hearing was held in response to…
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Ca: Innomar Strategies patients affected by a cyber attack
DataBreaches has previously reported some of the developing news concerning a cyberattack on Cencora/Lash Group. Our coverage focused on affected U.S. entities, but Canadian and UK entities were also affected. Wire News Fax reports: Medical and personal patient data from Innomar Strategies – a major Canadian pharmaceutical company – was stolen following an intrusion into…
Insider threat: Months after being fired, former employee accessed company’s computer test system and deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000
CNA reports: Singapore: Upset that he was fired, an employee accessed his former company’s computer test systems and deleted 180 virtual servers, costing them about S$918,000 (US$678,000). Kandula Nagaraju, 39, was sentenced to two years and eight months’ jail on Monday (Jun 10) for one charge of unauthorised access to computer material. Another charge was…
BreachForums back online — or it is a honeypot? (UPDATED)
On June 12, BreachForums reappeared on clearnet and Tor. The owner — or someone with access to the forum owner’s account — interacted a bit in the ShoutBox and posted an announcement: Hello BreachForums users! Some wild stuff has gone down recently. First off, Spamhaus has blacklisted our SMTP host. Then, we ran into more…
You permanently closed your business and then got hit with a ransomware attack. It just doesn’t seem fair, does it?
From a breach notification by civil law firm Santoro Whitmire in Las Vegas: Recently, after the firm permanently closed its business, we were the target of a ransomware attack. Ransomware is a computer virus that encrypts computer systems until and unless we pay money (i.e., the ransom) demanded by the attackers. We immediately notified law…
Ascension Cybersecurity Event Update
Posted June 12 on Ascension’s website: “We have made progress in our investigation and recovery with the help of third-party cybersecurity experts. At this point, we now have evidence that indicates that the attackers were able to take files from a small number of file servers used by our associates primarily for daily and routine…