Adam Straker reports: One of the great fears of any company is that it will be affected by a cyber attack. The presence of malware on a company’s computer equipment can be fatal by producing stoppages in production, the impossibility of accessing their records and even the danger of the personal data of its clients. But now a new…
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Iowa’s largest school district confirms ransomware attack, data theft
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Des Moines Public Schools, Iowa’s largest school district, confirmed today that a ransomware attack was behind an incident that forced it to take all networked systems offline on January 9, 2023. While the school district also received a ransom demand following the attack from an unnamed ransomware group, the ransom has not…
16,000 Vermont health insurance customers affected by Fortra/GoAnywhere breach, more than previously known
DataBreaches continues to keep an eye out for reports on how the Fortra/GoAnywhere breach affected the healthcare sector. Here’s another report, this one by Tiffany Tan: The personal information of at least 16,000 Vermont health insurance customers was stolen in a cyberattack in January — more than twice the number originally reported. The affected people…
Banks, Institutions Pay Over N200m Fines for Exposing Privacy Rights of Nigerians
Victor Enengedi reports: A total sum exceeding N200 million has been collected by the Federal Government from at least seven banks and various other institutions. The Federal Government collected these payments from these financial institutions as a consequence of their infringement upon the data privacy rights of Nigerian citizens. Read more at Legit. (If I’m…
A question for OnniForums (UPDATED)
Please see important update below this post. As DataBreaches previously reported, this site had received an email from OnniForums about Exposed.vc but the email had no reply option. Still curious and seeking answers about claims made in the email, I joined OnniForums, and found a post that mentioned my reporting on them by @DataBroker: Posted…
Former RAIDforums member “DataBox” sentenced to prison by Amsterdam court
A former member of RAIDForums was sentenced to prison today by an Amsterdam court. The 25-year-old man, Erkan Sezgin, was known as “DataBox” on RAIDforums when he listed the data of millions of Austrians for sale. Sezgin, who was employed as a data engineer at Matrixian Group, was arrested in November 2022 and detained until…