Isaiah Richard reports: The British Army faced a recent intrusion on its social media platforms, including Twitter and YouTube, where it posted several information that led to a cryptocurrency scam as its platforms got hacked. The government agency from Great Britain is launching an investigation to identify the culprits behind it, as it managed a…
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Verified Twitter accounts hacked to send fake suspension notices
Lawrence Abrams reports: Threat actors are hacking verified Twitter accounts to send fake but well-written suspension messages that attempt to steal other verified users’ credentials. Read more at BleepingComputer about how they tested the phishing scam and found that it was using Twitter’s API to verify that they user was actually inputting their true/accurate credentials….
ATC Healthcare, Community of Hope, The People Concern disclose breaches, Advocates notifies more people of its breach
Preface: In this post, DataBreaches summarizes four more notifications involving patient data or health data that were published this past week. Three of the incidents are new disclosures and one is an update. Note that the three newly disclosed incidents all involved compromise of employee email accounts. In at least two of the three incidents,…
Dutch Uni Gets Cyber Ransom Money Back… With Interest
AFP reports that because the value of BTC had increased dramatically, a ransomware victim wound up getting back a small fortune when they recovered the bitcoin they had paid. The southern Maastricht University in 2019 had paid 200,000 euros ($208,000) in bitcoins to attackers who had encrypted hundreds of Windows servers and backup systems. But the…
Medical documents, other personal information found by landscaper on busy Jacksonville road
Today’s reminder that low-tech paper breaches are still reportable breaches. Robert Bradfield reports someone found a trove of medical records from Allen Eye Center. Some records date back to the 1990s. “I just know that I saw date of births, names, full names, addresses, phone numbers,” Matt said. Read more at First Coast News.
Iranian hackers leak info of over 300,000 Israelis from tourism sites
There’s more emerging about the Sharp Boys’ group attack on Israeli tourism sites. The Jerusalem Post now reports: The personal information of over 300,000 Israelis was leaked last month by an Iranian hacker group targeting Israeli travel booking sites. The group, named Sharp Boys, claimed last month that it had obtained data from Israeli tourism sites,…