For the past few years, DataBreaches has called out victims of cyberattacks who do not fully disclose how bad a breach was. Weasel words such as something “may have” happened when a victim knows damned well that it wasn’t just “may have” but did happen are just one example. Another example involves victims who claim…
Category: Breach Incidents
Thailand’s THE ICON GROUP hacked by DESORDEN
DESORDEN Group’s attacks on ASEAN businesses continue. This week, they disclosed a hack of The Icon Group in Thailand. In a statement on a popular hacking forum, DESORDEN writes: This data breach involved 161 GB of databases and files, including personal information of 264,128 customers, with their full name, ID card number, bank account…
Robinhood data breach class action settlement
Top Class Actions reports that the Robinhood investment platform has agreed to settle litigation stemming from an incident in 2020 that resulted in some customers having their accounts taken over. According to a data breach class action lawsuit, Robinhood failed to respond adequately to the data breach. Because the company had no phone number listed…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Cl (Update): Failure to patch resulted in an embarrassing government leak Last week, DataBreaches noted that Guacamaya Group hacktivists had leaked emails from El Estado Mayor Conjunto De Chile (EMCO), the advisory body of the Chilean Ministry of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other governments. Now BiobioChile reports the government is considering the…
The Coeur Group notifies patients of data breach
DataBreaches has not seen anything on HHS’s public breach tool, but the Coeur Group in Omaha, Nebraska, published a legal notice about a cybersecurity incident involving patient information. According to their statement, an employee’s email account in Coeur Group’s business email system was compromised between June 7 and July 12, 2022. The breach was discovered on…
British teenager, 18, denies creating computer virus that crashed hundreds of institutions when he was just 14
David O’Dornan and Paul Higgins report: A teenager today denied creating a computer virus which allegedly ‘crashed hundreds of financial institutions across the world when he was just 14 years old. Josh Maunder, now 18, from Abbey Park in Bangor, Co Down in Northern Ireland, entered not guilty pleas to each of the 21 charges against…