CBC reports: Private proof-of-vaccination app Portpass exposed personal information, including the driver’s licences, of what could be as many as hundreds of thousands of users by leaving its website unsecured. On Monday evening, CBC News received a tip that the user profiles on the app’s website could be accessed by members of the public. CBC…
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Allen ISD Responds to Cybersecurity Breach
Another Texas school district has reported a cyberattack. NBC DFW reports: Allen ISD has not seen “any credible evidence” that personal information was accessed when it suffered a data breach last week, the district says. In the email sent to parents and staff on Thursday, Allen ISD said several systems including WiFi, printers, and phones…
Federal Lawsuit Filed Against Paxton Media Group Over Data Breach
Edward Marlowe reports: A federal lawsuit has been filed against Paxton Media Group, claiming the company had a cyber attack and massive data breach earlier this year, yet waited three or more months to tell more than 20,000 current and former employees that their private information was hacked — many of whom reside in west…
U.S. Extradites Convicted Russian Hacker Aleksei Burkov To Russia
RFE/RL reports: The United States has extradited to Russia a Russian national sentenced to nine years in prison for cybercrimes, the Russian news agency RIA cited Russia’s Interior Ministry as saying on September 28. Aleksei Burkov was sentenced in June last year by a U.S. district court in Virginia for operating two websites that sold stolen, mostly…
Mx: El Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (Inmegen) hit by cyberattack
The same group of threat actors who recently hit the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), are now claiming to have hit a Mexican government health agency that is involved in COVID testing or research: El Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (Inmegen). Limited data has been publicly dumped so far, but it appears to include…
MD: Groove threat actors claim to have hit Robinwood Orthopaedic
Robinwood Orthopaedic Specialty Center in Maryland is a division of the Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics. They have three locations in Frederick and Hagerstown. On some date as yet unknown to DataBreaches.net, they were allegedly hit by a cyberattack. Their name and screencaps of purported files were added to Groove’s leaks site on September 13. Robinwood…