Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: Black Basta, the extortionists who claimed they were the ones who lately broke into Capita, have reportedly put up for sale sensitive details, including bank account information, addresses, and passport photos, stolen from the IT outsourcing giant. A spokesperson for the London-based corporation, which has UK government contracts totaling £6.5 billion…
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Dutch hacking suspects to be in court April 20; Dutch police try to warn others to “stop cybercrime”
There’s been a lot of speculation following the arrest of Conor Fitzpatrick (aka “Pompompurin”) once it began to really sink in for some people that law enforcement has both the RaidForums BreachForums databases. One development that has contributed to the anxiety some people may be feeling is that the Dutch police have sent out thousands…
Hackers Stole School Data. The District Left Teachers in the Dark
More on the Tucson Unified School District ransomware attack by Royal. Jack Gillum reports: Classrooms across Tucson, Arizona, were ravaged by ransomware in January that locked up computer systems and forced teachers to revamp lesson plans. Officials in southern Arizona’s largest school district tried assuring students and staff for weeks that, despite the cyberattack, sensitive data wasn’t…
Fi: Hacked therapy centre’s ex-CEO gets 3-month suspended sentence
YLE reports: Helsinki District Court handed a three-month suspended sentence to the former CEO of a psychotherapy firm targeted in a major data breach. The court found the ex-CEO of Vastaamo, Ville Tapio, guilty of a data protection crime because he did not fulfil General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, in terms of the pseudonymisation and…
Real estate firm OrangeTee & Tie fined for data breach involving 250,000 customers and employees
CNA reports a follow-up to an attack by ALTDOS that was previously reported by DataBreaches: Real estate agency OrangeTee & Tie has been fined S$37,000 by Singapore’s privacy watchdog after the personal data of more than 250,000 customers and employees was compromised. Names, bank account numbers, property transaction amounts, as well as identity card numbers were…
No evidence found of Little Rock School District data use after ransomware incident
Cynthia Howell reports: The Little Rock School District, a victim of a 2022 data security attack, is telling its past and present employees, student families and vendors that there is no evidence that their personal data has been “viewed, used or misused.” However, that announcement — posted recently on the 21,000-student district’s website — also…