March 22 — Deepanshu Kher was sentenced today in federal court to two years in prison for accessing the server of a Carlsbad Company and deleting over 1,200 over the company’s 1,500 Microsoft User Accounts. According to court documents, Kher was employed by an information technology consulting firm from 2017 through May 2018. In 2017,…
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Ca: Sierra Wireless Announces Ransomware Attack
VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR) (TSX: SW), the world’s leading IoT solutions provider, today announced that it discovered it was the subject of a ransomware attack on its internal IT systems on March 20, 2021. Once the company learned of the attack, its IT and operations teams immediately implemented measures to counter the…
TX: Sewell Family of Companies discloses breach
Seen on their web site: The Sewell Family of Companies has concluded an investigation into a data security incident that occurred August 1, 2020, when officials learned of an unauthorized attempt to access its network. At the time, SFC followed its protocol and immediately shut down its network to prevent further harm. SFC launched an…
MangaDex website taken offline following cyber-attack, data breach
The Daily Swig reports: A website that hosts free manga comics has been taken offline after malicious hackers allegedly gained access to a database that housed user data. The MangaDex site was taken down for maintenance last week (March 20) after an unknown actor gained access to an administrator account. The site’s maintainers said the attacker was…
MA: Stratus Technologies posts about ransomware attack
From an urgent notice on their web site: On March 17, 2021, Stratus Technologies, Inc. was the victim of a ransomware event. Upon detecting suspicious activity, we took several systems offline to isolate the issue and began to initiate our business continuity plan. Additionally, we notified federal law enforcement authorities and enlisted third-party subject matter…
Br: Hacker attack compromises operation of Celg-GT applications and files
Felipe Cardoso reports (translation): Celg Geração e Transmissão (Celg GT) – reported, on the morning of this Friday, the 19th, that it suffered, during the night, a cyber attack that left access to the entire corporate network of applications and files compromised. It has not yet been possible to identify the extent of the damage…