Lawrence Abrams reports: Kwik Trip has released another statement on an ongoing outage, all but confirming it suffered a cyberattack that has led to IT system disruptions. Kwik Trip is a US chain of over 800 convenience stores and gas stations in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, also operating under the name Kwik Star in Illinois,…
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Henry Schein Inc. discloses cyberattack
Newsday reports: Henry Schein Inc., Long Island’s largest publicly traded company, said that a “cybersecurity incident” it discovered Saturday affected some of its manufacturing and distribution businesses. “Henry Schein promptly took precautionary action, including taking certain systems offline and other steps intended to contain the incident, which has led to temporary disruption of some of Henry…
D-Link confirms data breach after employee phishing attack
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link confirmed a data breach linked to information stolen from its network and put up for sale on BreachForums earlier this month. The attacker claims to have stolen source code for D-Link’s D-View network management software, along with millions of entries containing personal information of customers and employees, including…
Colonial Pipeline was hacked. No, wait, Accenture was hacked. No, wait….. untangling claims. (2)
By, now, there’s been a lot of buzz by some claims made by RansomedVC on their leak site and on their Telegram channel. In their post this afternoon, RansomedVC claimed that (1) Rob Lee of Dragos somehow cheated someone called “fooble,” and as a result, (2) RansomedVC was going to leak files that Lee had…
Equifax’s U.K. Arm Fined Over 2017 Data Breach
Margot Patrick reports: Equifax’s (EFX) U.K. arm was fined around $13.6 million Friday for failing to protect the data of millions of British customers in a 2017 hack of the credit-reporting company. The British arm outsourced customer-data processing to the U.S., and then failed to manage or monitor data security, the Financial Conduct Authority said. Read…
Steam upgrades security after games hijacked to spread malware
Imogen Donovan reports: Valve has been in contact with several game developers who were hit by hackers who used a vulnerability to hide malware in their games on Steam. The hackers’ intention was to play the malware off as an update to the installed game on players’ PCs, then infecting them when the “new build” was downloaded. Read…