Stephen Gutowski reports: California gun owners have been put at risk by the Attorney General’s office after a new dashboard leaked their personal information. The California Department of Justice’s 2022 Firearms Dashboard Portal went live on Monday with publicly-accessible files that include identifying information for those who have concealed carry permits. The leaked information includes the person’s…
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Cyberattacks: Karakurt makes a comeback with a bang
The following is a machine translation of an article by Valéry Rieß-Marchive: “A lot of May leaks are coming”. This is the message displayed in large print on the front page of Karakurt’s new showcase site. And he is not alone. It is accompanied by the announcement of future disclosures of data concerning 10 hitherto unknown victims. All are scheduled for…
Dripping Springs Independent School District notifies 367 of breach
Although no details can be found online yet, it appears that Dripping Springs ISD in Texas notified the Texas Attorney General’s Office of a breach affecting 367 Texans. The breach reportedly involved the names of individuals, Address; Social Security Number Information; Driver’s License number; Medical Information; and Health Insurance Information. Notice to the state was…
Son of Conti: Ransomware tries its hand at politics
Dina Temple-Raston and Sean Powers report: It has been a busy spring for the Russian-speaking ransomware group Conti. After an unprecedented leak of its internal chat logs earlier in the year that had experts predicting the group’s demise, Conti, or at least some subset of it, came back with a vengeance. In April it attacked Costa Rica, hacking…
Illuminate breach victims are still first being notified
Spotted today: a notification by the Renton School District in Washington that they notified 20,509 Washington residents on June 17 dues to a breach that sounds like the Illuminate breach (based on the dates reported by Renton): https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM13493.pdf
Ransomware attack caused ongoing Napa Valley College internet and phone system outage
Edward Booth and Howard Yune report: The Napa Valley College website and network systems were knocked offline as the result of a ransomware attack roughly two weeks ago, a spokesperson for the school has confirmed. Napavalley.edu was still dark as of Saturday afternoon, as NVC continued an investigation that began shortly after the site vanished…