Auditi Guha reports: The Orange Southwest Supervisory District’s website was hacked Saturday and inundated with “hate speech, symbols, and photographs targeting transgender invidividuals [sic],” superintendent Layne Millington wrote community members on Saturday. The incident prompted district leaders to disable its website and social media accounts, Millington wrote, and to refer the matter to local…
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Thailand’s THE ICON GROUP hacked by DESORDEN
DESORDEN Group’s attacks on ASEAN businesses continue. This week, they disclosed a hack of The Icon Group in Thailand. In a statement on a popular hacking forum, DESORDEN writes: This data breach involved 161 GB of databases and files, including personal information of 264,128 customers, with their full name, ID card number, bank account…
Robinhood data breach class action settlement
Top Class Actions reports that the Robinhood investment platform has agreed to settle litigation stemming from an incident in 2020 that resulted in some customers having their accounts taken over. According to a data breach class action lawsuit, Robinhood failed to respond adequately to the data breach. Because the company had no phone number listed…
Electricity Company of Ghana systems hacked with ransomware – Sources
Ghana Business News reports: For about five days now some customers of the largest electricity seller in the country, Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have been unable to buy power and others have had their power off for days without respite, because some sections of the company’s systems have been hacked, ghanabusinessnews.com has been told…
Mexico confirms hack of military records, president’s health information
If you have been reading @Chum1ng0’s weekly “Bits n’ Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)” column on Fridays, you have already read about the Guacamaya group’s hack and leak of government files from Chile and other Latam countries. The incident has received public attention in Chile, where some have proposed a national cybersecurity agency. The Mexican government…
Eight Shangri-La hotels in Asia hit by data breach, potentially exposing guest information
Eight Shangri-La hotels in Asia, including Singapore and Hong Kong, were hit by a data breach, potentially exposing guest information such as names, email addresses and phone numbers. […] “The investigation revealed that between May and July 2022, a sophisticated threat actor managed to bypass Shangri-La’s IT security monitoring systems undetected and illegally accessed the…