Ravie Lakshmanan reports: Open source media player software provider Kodi has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole the company’s MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages. What’s more, the unknown threat actors attempted to sell the data dump comprising 400,635 Kodi users on the now-defunct BreachForums cybercrime marketplace. Read more at The Hacker News.
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Patient Advances Data Breach Class Action Against Lamoille Health
Christopher Brown reports: Lamoille Health Partners Inc. must face a proposed class action alleging it negligently failed to protect the personal information of 60,000 people that was exposed in a data breach. Lamoille Health wasn’t entitled to immunity from suit under the Public Health Service Act because the lawsuit’s data breach allegations weren’t interwoven with…
Southeastern University silent amid claims of data leak linked to network breach
At the end of February, Southeastern University in Louisiana announced an outage that resulted in the school taking its network offline. Since then, and as DataBreaches first reported on March 4, they have been less than transparent about what happened and the scope of what we know was a ransomware incident involving the BianLian ransomware…
Retina & Vitreous of Texas notifies 35,766 patients of ransomware attack but doesn’t call it one
On April 10, Retina & Vitreous Associates of Texas issued a press release about a security incident discovered in February. They write, in part, “On February 1, 2023, Retina & Vitreous became aware of unusual activity within its network and discovered that there had been unauthorized access to the environment…… On February 15, 2023, the investigation…
Guardsman arrested for leak of classified docs on Discord
Aric Toler, Michael Schwirtz, Haley Willis, Riley Mellen, Christiaan Triebert, Malachy Browne, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Julian E. Barnes report: The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National…
Indonesian hackers threaten to attack 12,000 government websites
Deccan Chronicle reports: A high alert has been sounded in view of possible attacks on as many as 12,000 Central and state government websites by Indonesian hackers. CERT-In issued an ‘Urgent- High Alert’ warning all Central and state agencies and departments to be alert and report any such incidents to them immediately. Read more at…