Emmet Ryan reports: The personal information of 15,471 candidates for public roles has been released in error by the Public Appointments Service (PAS). A message was sent to the affected candidates through the publicjobs.ie portal notifying the candidates affected their names and jobs alert notifications they had subscribed to may have been provided to other…
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US Energy Dept gets two ransom notices as MOVEit hack claims more victims
Reuters reports: WASHINGTON: The U.S. Department of Energy got ransom requests from the Russia-linked extortion group Cl0p at both its nuclear waste facility and scientific education facility that were recently hit in a global hacking campaign, a spokesperson said on Friday. The DOE contractor Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the…
Detained for DDoS attacks as part of the next edition of the international “Power Off” operation
The following is a machine translation into English of a press release issued by the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime. The original Polish version can be found at https://cbzc.policja.gov.pl/bzc/aktualnosci/162,Zatrzymani-do-sprawy-atakow-DDoS-w-ramach-kolejnej-edycji-miedzynarodowej-operac.html Date of publication 06/16/2023 Police officers of the Bydgoszcz Department of the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime, in cooperation with the District Prosecutor’s Office in Bydgoszcz,…
Oregon DMV, Louisiana OMV warn residents of MOVEit data breach
Both the Oregon and Louisiana departments of motor vehicles have become victims of the MOVEit hack and millions of drivers and vehicle owners have had their personal information stolen. Onur Demirkol reports that the Oregon DMV fell prey to the MOVEit hack: An estimated 3.5 million driver’s license and identity card details were exposed when…
Energy Department and other federal agencies affected by MOVEit breach
AP reports: The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. But for others among what could be hundreds of victims from industry…
NY Attorney General James Recovers $1.7 Million from Cryptocurrency Platform for Operating Illegally
AG James Has Recovered More Than $500 Million from Crypto Industry for Violating New York Laws NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today recovered more than $1.7 million from COINEX (CoinEx) for failing to register as a securities and commodities broker-dealer and for falsely representing itself as a crypto exchange. Today’s agreement resolves Attorney…