This has not been a great year for Australian citizens whose personal information has been compromised in a number of cyberattacks. Although DataBreaches regrets being the bearer of more bad news for them, more than one million customers of Pizza Hut Australia appear to have had their data acquired by ShinyHunters. According to “Shiny” (@shinycorp),…
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Update: Leak site with plastic surgery patients’ data and sexually explicit videos removed
In July, DataBreaches reported a data breach involving the plastic surgery practice of Gary Motykie, M.D. The incident, which appeared to be a hack with an extortion demand, had been reported to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, but an upset patient had also contacted NBC News in Los Angeles to reveal that a leak site…
Kudos to North Mississippi Health Services for fast detection and disruption of attack
Kudos to the North Mississippi Health Services for rapid detection and interruption of a phishing attack. In a website notice dated September 1, NMHS explains that on July 3, they discovered unauthorized access through an employee’s email account after a phishing email was unintentionally opened. “Our Security Operation Committee (SOC) promptly shut down the system,…
Maker of ‘smart’ chastity cage left users’ emails, passwords, and locations exposed
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports on yet another incident in which responsible disclosure by a researcher and follow-up by media failed to get a company to address vulnerabilities that left the personal information of customers exposed: A company that makes a chastity device for people with a penis that can be controlled by a partner over the…
Why is .US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?
Brian Krebs reports: Domain names ending in “.US” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. This is noteworthy because .US is overseen by the U.S. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in .US. Also, .US domains are only…
“It can be confirmed the system of the Department of Defence has not been hacked”- SANDF
Yesterday, DataBreaches reported on SNAtch Team and how they were not a ransomware gang or using what had been referred to as the Snatch locker or ransomware. In that report, DataBreaches included a description provided by their spokesperson about their attack on the South Africa Department of Defense — an attack that SANDF initially dismissed…