Tyler Orton reports: A cyberattack targeting Vancouver Film School has left students with a big lump of coal as they prepare to wrap their term in time for the holidays. “VFS has been impacted by and is investigating a suspected cyber incident. We are currently investigating and are taking all steps possible to contain and…
Author: Dissent
Source: FBI investigating cyberattack of online sportsbooks
David Purdum reports: An investigation into an ongoing cyberattack that impacted thousands of betting accounts at the largest online sportsbooks has been escalated to the FBI, an industry source told ESPN. Some customers, who were compromised and had funds withdrawn out of their personal bank accounts, were struggling to reach DraftKings and FanDuel representatives and…
Unknown Hacker Makes Away With $5 million From Ankr Protocol
Jimmy Kelly reports: In a Tweet released by the popular DeFi Protocol Ankr, the protocol made it public that it had just suffered a cyber attack wherein the hacker having minted a thousand trillion of the reward-bearing token for BNB staked on the protocol (aBNBc) made away with about 20 trillion which he later converted to BNB and later…
Little Rock School District reports data security incident
Little Rock School District has created a web page about a data security incident detected on Nov. 11. They do not call it ransomware and make no mention of any ransom demand. The only thing they seem to be confident of at this point is that at least some data was exfiltrated, but they say…
Privacy breach reported by Manitoba Health
Charles Lefebvre reports: Manitoba Health says a privacy breach that happened earlier this week following a break-in at a facility compromised some people’s personal health information. According to a statement from the province, the break-in took place at the Manitoba Health Appeal Board office on Portage Avenue on Nov. 29, with the province noting confidential…
New Zealand health insurer Accuro says it’s been hacked, can’t rule out customers’ data being accessed
NewsHub reports: The company said in a statement there was not yet evidence of personal health data being compromised but it could not be ruled out. “Our IT provider is working with their own forensic experts and Government agencies to understand the nature and extent of the impact. We have also notified the relevant regulatory authorities including…