Another major Indian firm has fallen prey to a massive cyberattack. This time, the victim is a Fortune India 500 List company: Mumbai-headquartered Aditya Birla Group (ABG). The conglomerate includes Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. (ABFRL) as well as businesses in other sectors. ABFRL, formed after the merger of Madura Fashion & Lifestyle and…
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A Missouri Reporter Is (Still) Getting Blamed For the Security Flaw He Exposed
Jack Gillum sought — and obtained — some records from Missouri Governor Parson’s office concerning the governor’s staff’s public statements and the governor’s intention to try to prosecute journalist Josh Renaud. Renaud’s crime: he discovered a vulnerability on a state website where by clicking the F12 key to view the source of a page, one…
Connecticut company that hosts school websites recovering from ransomware attack
Jesse Leavenworth reports: A Glastonbury-based company that hosts thousands of school websites in Connecticut and across the nation continued to recover Monday from a ransomware attack launched last week. “We still have no evidence that any data has been viewed, compromised or extracted,” Finalsite spokeswoman Morgan Delack said. Finalsite has identified the cyber attacker and…
Missouri school district’s employee data dumped by ransomware group
It’s a new year, but we are still seeing old problems with the education sector being compromised by ransomware attacks on the k-12 subsector. Over the past weekend, threat actors known as Vice Society dumped data from Carthage R-9 district in Carthage, Missouri. When contacted about the incident, a spokesperson for Vice Society informed DataBreaches.net…
Ph: Comelec investigating alleged data breach ahead of #Halalan2022
Update of January 12: A Comelec official has called the report of a breach “fake news.” See ABS-CBN for update. Ina Reformina and Jauhn Etienne Villaruel report: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has suffered another data breach with 4 months to go before the crucial May national elections, a Manila Bulletin report claimed Monday, saying…
Th: Huge patient data leak from Siriraj Hospital
Suchit Leesa-Nguansuk reports: About 39 million purported patient records from Siriraj Hospital have been offered for sale on an internet database-sharing forum in what appears to be the latest hack of the country’s public health sector. Authorities are investigating the post, which was on raidforums.com. […] The data is not only from Siriraj Hospital but…