In February 2022, NFL’s San Francisco 49ers confirmed a ransomware attack by BlackByte. This week they started mailing notification letters to more than 20,000 people. * * * In a bizarre incident, hackers broke into the ride-hailing service provider Yandex Taxi’s software and sent dozens of cars to the same location, resulting in a traffic…
Author: Dissent
IRS ‘mistakenly’ posts names, contact numbers and financial information from 120,000 taxpayers’ retirement accounts on its website thanks to human coding error
Ronny Rayes reports: The Internal Revenue Service ‘mistakenly’ posted the names, contact data and financial information from about 120,000 taxpayers’ retirement accounts. The US Treasury Department determined that a human coding error allowed the confidential information to be posted on the IRS’ website before it was taken down, the Wall Street Journal reported. Read more at The…
Samsung says customer data stolen in July data breach
Zack Whittaker and Carly Page reports: Electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a data breach affecting customers’ personal information. In a brief notice, Samsung said it discovered the security incident in late-July and that an “unauthorized third party acquired information from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems.” The company said it determined customer data was compromised on August 4. Read…
Customer data from hundreds of Indonesian and Malaysian restaurants hacked by DESORDEN
Hackers known as DESORDEN have hit another big Indonesian business. This time, their victim was BOGA Group, which operates more than 200 restaurants and outlets across Indonesia and Malaysia under brand names including Bakerzin, Pepper Lunch, Paradise Dynasty, Paradise Inn, Shaburi, Kintan Buffet, Onokabe, Putu Made, Kimukatsu, Yakiniku Like, Ocean 8, Sushi Kaiyo, and Boga…
Medical billing service in Florida one of the latest victims of ransomware attacks
Add NCG Medical to business associates who a ransomware attack has compromised. The medical billing service in Florida was added to the Hive ransomware group’s leak site on August 31, with Hive claiming that they encrypted NCG’s files on August 19. The 12-day gap between encryption and publicly revealing the attack is a relatively short…
‘I think Indonesia’s cybersecurity is run by 14-year olds’: Hackers
In July, DataBreaches published a piece highlighting the increasing number of breaches and leaks affecting Indonesians showing up on marketplaces where personal data is shared or sold. “Growing risk to Indonesian citizens’ privacy as breaches and leaks appear on marketplaces” included several recent examples found on the popular forum, Breached.to (Breach Forums). Now a new…