Jimmy LaRoue reports: The superintendent for Middlesex County Public Schools confirmed Thursday that the school division was the subject of a recent ransomware attack. “We can confirm that Middlesex County Public Schools recently suffered a ransomware attack,” said Superintendent Dr. Tracy Seitz in a statement to 10 On Your Side. “We took immediate action to…
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Orbiter Finance Discord Server Hacked
Mansi Sarvaiya reports: A decentralized cross-rollup layer-2 bridge, Orbiter Finance’s Discord server was compromised by bad actors, who have shared a link to a fraudulent airdrop program. This incident marks the latest targeting of Orbiter Finance. CertiK Alert, a reputable blockchain security and analytics platform, took to Twitter in the early hours of June 1…
Ie: Patients’ info accidentally sent to unidentified individual by UL Hospitals Group
Ben Scallan reports: UL Hospitals Group, responsible for managing six hospitals in the midwest region, announced a significant data breach resulting in the inadvertent sharing of personal and medical information belonging to over 1,000 patients with an unknown third party. The breach occurred in January when a staff member mistakenly sent the data to an…
Russia says US hacked thousands of Apple phones in spy plot
Guy Faulconbridge reports: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said dozens of its employees’ devices were compromised in the operation. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said in a statement that…
BlackByte attacks City of Augusta, GA and demands a ransom of $2 million
Marco A. De Felice aka @amvinfe writes: In this article we will not only address the part relating to the attack carried out by BlackByte on the IT systems of the City of Augusta, the theft of tens of GB of data or the real amount of the ransom requested by the ransomware group. Above…
Hong Kong privacy watchdog warns data management firm over possible exposure of credit histories of 180,000 people
Sammy Heung reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has threatened to take legal action against a data management firm for failing to protect the credit histories of about 180,000 people from unauthorised access. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data on Thursday said it received a complaint in December 2021 from an individual who…