A 35-year-old computer hacker was convicted for fraud at the regional court in Gqeberha on Thursday. Raydson Lehlogonolo Ntsala was arrested after swindling R350,000 from his unsuspecting victim in 2017. He hacked the victim’s computer, later pretended to be her broker, and went on to solicit the amount using email. Read more on HeraldLive.
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Informed of a data leak in July, Brazilian integrator platform continued to expose more than 1.75 billion files
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Williamsville School employees’ private health data inadvertently leaked by Independent Health
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Acer India hacked — again?
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Missouri Teachers’ Social Security numbers at risk on state agency’s website; state’s response is to shoot the messenger?
Josh Renaud reports: The Social Security numbers of school teachers, administrators and counselors across Missouri were vulnerable to public exposure due to flaws on a website maintained by the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The Post-Dispatch discovered the vulnerability in a web application that allowed the public to search teacher certifications and credentials…
Update: Missouri Delta Medical Center acknowledges ransomware incident
DataBreaches.net has continued to follow up on the ransomware attack on Missouri Delta Medical Center claimed by Hive threat actors. This site broke the story about the breach on September 12. Several days ago, the listing for MDMC was removed from Hive’s leak site, despite the threat actors’ warnings that they were going to follow…