The Hammersmith Medicines Research (HMR) facility in London is not the only firm working on research to understand or treat COVID-19 that has been recently attacked with ransomware. While Maze Team attacked HMR in March, another team using Sodinokibi ransomware (the REvil team) was attacking 10x Genomics in California. The attack was disclosed on April…
Category: Business Sector
Maropost takes your privacy and security….
I confess: some data leaks are not particularly interesting to me in terms of their sector or type of data leaked, but they become noteworthy because of the entity’s horrible, terrible, ridiculously bad incident response to attempted notification. Today we give you Maropost Inc. a marketing automation platform whose 10,000+ clients include New York Post, Shopify,…
Vianet’s customer data compromised with latest leaks
NepaliTelecom reports: While we just completed the Challenges of ISP for the current situation, another news appeared of the data leak for one of the leading Internet services providers in Nepal. Of course, we had missed that part. The leak is of none other than Vianet whose customers’ details have been compromised with a possible hack happened…
Email provider got hacked, data of 600,000 users now sold on the dark web
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The data of more than 600,000 Email.it users is currently being sold on the dark web, ZDNet has learned following a tip from one of our readers. “Unfortunately, we must confirm that we have suffered a hacker attack,” the Italian email service provider said in a statement to ZDNet on Monday. Read more…
Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws
Ainsley Harris reports: A few weeks ago, New York City’s 75,000 teachers scrambled to learn how to use videoconferencing services like Zoom as novel coronavirus cases began to rise and schools prepared to close their doors and institute remote learning. Now, the city’s teachers will have to scramble once more, after Department of Education Chancellor…
Prosecutors Charge Two Men over Coincheck Hack, But Not For Hacking
Tim Alper reports: Tokyo prosecutors have formally charged two men with handling stolen cryptoassets as part of the investigation into the January 2018 hack on crypto exchange Coincheck – still the biggest crypto heist in human history. Per media outlet Nikkei, the two men, an Osaka-based 39-year-old and a doctor, aged 30, from Obihiro, Hokkaido, under the terms of…