Baptist Medical Center in San Antonio and Resolute Health Hospital in New Braunfels have disclosed a cyberattack involving unspecified malicious code that infected their system. According to statements made by IDX on their behalf, an unauthorized party accessed and exfiltrated data from their network between March 31, 2022 and April 24. The attack was first…
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Sg: PDPC issues monetary penalty in the matter of the Vhive cyberattack
One of the many hacks this site reported on in 2021 was the attack on Vhive in Singapore by threat actors calling themselves ALTDOS. The attack resulted in what the threat actors claimed was hundreds of thousands of the furniture retailers’ customers having their personal information leaked when the firm refused to pay the attackers’…
Confidential Record Leak Leaves CalBar, Lawyers, Clients Exposed
David McAfee reports: California’s state bar association, which is responsible for licensing and regulating more than 250,000 lawyers in the most populous US state, is itself under scrutiny for a data leak that allowed confidential client complaint and attorney disciplinary record data to be captured by a free court records website. As many as 322,500…
Cloudflare Thwarted Largest Ever HTTPS DDoS Attack
The DDoS attack originated from 121 countries and was powered by a small botnet of only 5,067 hacked IoT devices. Debra Ahmed reports: Cloudflare has reported stopping a record-breaking HTTPS DDoS attack (distributed denial of service attack) this month. The company claims this attack peaked at 26 million requests per second (RPS), making it the largest ever…
Malaysian POS provider StoreHub almost exposed one million customers in data leak
Aaron Raj reports: Another day, another data leak report in Malaysia. Data leaks and breaches are becoming so rampant in Malaysia that there is news about them almost every week in the local media. Now, almost a million customers have had their data leaked in what may be an industry-impacting incident. According to a report by…
Theft of computers at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec: the files of 10,000 employees stolen
Helen Hernandez reports: The personal data of nearly 10,000 employees of the CHU de Québec were stolen during a burglary that occurred on the night of June 5 to 6. The criminals broke into the premises of the CHU de Québec Research Center and seized computer equipment containing employee files. 9,500 former and current workers…