Shahla Farzan reports: Ransomware attackers have stolen data from a third-party vendor that supplies utility equipment to Ameren Missouri power plants. Dozens of data files from Ohio-based LTI Power Systems appeared on a ransomware server in late February, including equipment diagrams and schematics from two Ameren Missouri facilities. No customer information appears to have been…
Category: Business Sector
TQL faces lawsuit over data breach
Clarissa Hawes reports an update to a previously reported breach: A trucking company has filed a lawsuit against Total Quality Logistics (TQL) over its recent data breach, alleging the company was negligent after hackers attacked its computer systems in February. Owner Charles Newman, whose trucking company is not named in the filing, claims TQL, headquartered…
Security Breach Disrupts Fintech Firm Finastra
Brian Krebs reports: Finastra, a company that provides a range of technology solutions to banks worldwide, said today it was shutting down key systems in response to a security breach discovered this morning. The company’s public statement and notice to customers does not mention the cause of the outage, but their response so far is…
India’s Vijay Sales Leaks Private Information through Exposed Amazon Backup Server
Risk Based Security notes: On March 2nd, 2020, a notorious threat actor posted a leaked Vijay Sales database on a popular dark web hacker forum. Vijay Sales is a large electronics retail store chain in India, with nearly two hundred thousand users affected in the leak. The threat actor claimed the source was from an…
[CORRECTED] A UK-based Security Company Seemed To Have Inadvertently Exposed Its ‘Leaks Database’ with 5B+ Records
UPDATE and CORRECTION: DataBreaches.net received an email from a firm who claimed that a report by Bob Diachenko, whose research report had been quoted on DataBreaches.net, had incorrectly claimed that they had had a data breach. Diachenko has revised his report. In light of the correction, DataBreaches.net is deleting the excerpt from Bob’s report that originally…
Sodinokibi Ransomware Data Leaks Now Sold on Hacker Forums
Lawrence Abrams reports: … Recently, the Sodinokibi Ransomware operators published over 12 GB of stolen data allegedly belonging to a company named Brooks International for not paying the ransom. Read more on BleepingComputer.