Jeremy Kirk has done a terrific job of investigating and reporting on what we know so far about the Optus data leak and extortion attempt. He reports: Early Saturday, a person going by the nickname “Optusdata” published two samples of the purported stolen data on a well-known data leak forum. The attacker writes that Optus…
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Correction
On September 20, DataBreaches published a post about an alleged hack of Ask.FM data from what was described as a March, 2020 hack. Ask.FM had not replied to this site’s inquiries by the time of publication. Ask.FM replied today and reminded me that they had addressed this same claimed hack in December 2021 when this…
Held to Ransom: How Cyberattacks Can Become a Legal and Regulatory Odyssey for a Private Investment Fund
Ryan P. Blaney, Margaret A. Dale, Dorothy Murray, Todd J. Ohlms, and Jonathan M. Weiss of Proskauer write: …. Cyberattacks, by their very nature, know no borders and nor therefore should a private fund’s response The first of this two-part series considers immediate incident response steps and analyses whether to pay a ransom, from U.S.,…
AU: ‘One of the most serious cyberattacks’: Customer data exposed in Optus hack
Nick Bonyhady reports: Hackers have breached Optus’ systems in one of the largest cyberattacks in Australian history, accessing names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses and driver’s licence numbers of millions of the telecommunications giant’s customers. Well-placed sources not authorised to speak publicly said that up to 9 million customers had been…
Alleged GTA 6 Hacker Under Investigation By The FBI
Connor Trinske reports: The unprecedented leak of Grand Theft Auto 6 is now under investigation by the FBI, and it’s targeting the hacker who claimed responsibility. Over 90 videos of GTA 6 gameplay footage and screenshots made their way online last weekend, primarily via the GTAForums. The footage shown in those leaks lined up with previous reports surrounding Rockstar’s next game,…
Ask.FM user database with 350m user records has shown up for sale (UPDATED with Denial from Ask.FM)
“I think it’s probably one of the biggest breaches in a long time, can’t think of any bigger ones,” Pompompurin, the owner of Breached.to, wrote when asked about a new for-sale listing that appeared on his forum. A seller called “Data,” who Pompompurin says he will “vouch all day and night for” listed user data…