More about the successful use of forged emergency data requests that Brian Krebs reported about yesterday. Now William Turton reports: Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Apple and Meta provided…
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‘I can fight with a keyboard’: How one Ukrainian IT specialist exposed a notorious Russian ransomware gang
Sean Lyngaas reports: As Russian artillery began raining down on his homeland last month, one Ukrainian computer researcher decided to fight back the best way he knew how — by sabotaging one of the most formidable ransomware gangs in Russia. Four days into Russia’s invasion, the researcher began publishing the biggest leak ever of files and data from…
Officials to give update on Newfoundland and Labrador cyberattack Wednesday
CBC News reports: Officials in Newfoundland and Labrador will give an update Wednesday on the cyberattack that paralyzed the province’s health-care system for weeks. Health Minister John Haggie and Eastern Health CEO David Diamond will talk about the attack and its impact on the health-care system beginning at 10:30 a.m. NT. The conference will be streamed on the…
Eight years later, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center breach victims will finally settlement checks
Paula Reed Ward reports: UPMC on Thursday will begin making payments to 66,000 employees who were victims of a 2014 data breach — as part of a settlement approved late last year. Employees were notified via an email on Monday that they will receive a payment notification with a link to claim it electronically. They…
French health insurance data leak: what to do if you are one of the 510,000 affected
Emma Morgan reports: On March 17, it was revealed that the accounts of 19 healthcare staff had been hacked, causing the details of at least 510,000 people to be stolen. France’s Caisse nationale d’assurance maladie (Cnam) health insurance body, which has now made a formal complaint, explained that “unauthorised people” had connected to the “Amelipro…
Network cavity blamed for data breach at Japanese candy maker Morinaga
John Leyden reports: Japanese confectionary manufacturer Morinaga has warned that a suspected data breach of its online store may have exposed the personal information of more than 1.6 million customers. Potentially exposed information includes the names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, purchase histories, and, in fewer than 4,000 instances, email addresses of affected Morinaga Direct customers. The firm…