Jurgita Lapienytė reports: Killer Instinct, a company that trades high-tech modern adaptations of the archaic long-range weapon, has disclosed a data breach affecting over 800 users. The company filed a notification with the Maine Attorney General’s Office, saying threat actors obtained users’ financial account or credit/debit card numbers in combination with security, access code, password…
Author: Dissent
Reports continue to emerge from Community Health Systems entities affected by Fortra/GoAnywhere breach
The number of entities disclosing that they were affected by the Fortra/GoAnywhere breach continues to mount. Because a number of entities are part of CHSPSC, LLC (“CHSPSC”) DataBreaches wants to make readers aware of two notices: Community Health System’s security incident notice. and A map of CHSPSC locations so you can look at your state…
Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty Negotiations Headed in Troubling Direction, Sidestepping Human Rights Protections and Threatening Free Expression, EFF and Allies Warn
A press release from EFF: San Francisco—On Thursday, April 13, at 10:00 am Pacific Time (1:00 pm Eastern Time, 7 pm CEST), experts with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and four international allies will brief reporters on the grave threat to human rights posed by ongoing UN Cybercrime Treaty negotiations that could lead to broad surveillance…
Cyberwarfare is all in the mind, says Britain
The Economist reports: It is the deterrent rocket force of our age,” gushed one columnist. “Cyber divisions are worth more than aircraft carrier[s] or nuclear weapons.” He was referring to Britain’s National Cyber Force (ncf), created in 2020 with a mission to “disrupt, deny, degrade” in cyberspace. Now the ncf is opening up to dispel such fantasies. On…
Seized Genesis Market Data is Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned, Courtesy of the FBI and “Operation Cookie Monster”
Troy Hunt writes: A quick summary first before the details: This week, the FBI in cooperation with international law enforcement partners took down a notorious marketplace trading in stolen identity data in an effort they’ve named “Operation Cookie Monster”. They’ve provided millions of impacted email addresses and passwords to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) so…
Noteboom – The Law Firm hit by BlackCat
On March 24, BlackCat emailed Noteboom – The Law Firm, a Texas personal injury law firm. The email, shared with DataBreaches by BlackCat, appeared to be sent from the firm’s own systems administrator, Paul Khong. With some light editing by DataBreaches to correct some typos, it read: This is [ALPHV] aka BlackCat Ransomware Team. We…