As if Reddit wasn’t already having serious issues these days, they have allegedly been hacked by AlphV (aka BlackCat), who write: Operators broke into Reddit on February 5, 2023, and took 80 gigabytes (zipped) of data. Reddit was emailed twice by operators, once on April 13 and one again on June 16. There was no…
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Healthcare and Public Health Sector Cybersecurity Notification: #TimisoaraHackerTeam Analysis
June 16 – #TimisoaraHackerTeam Analysis TLP: Clear
Ie: Data breach at Public Appointments Service involving 15,000 people
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…
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…