On July 26, Jeff Burt reported: The LockBit ransomware crew is claiming to have stolen 78GB of data from Italy’s tax agency and is threatening to leak it if a ransom isn’t paid by July 31. The notorious gang put a notice on its dark-web site adding the agency – the Agenzia delle Entrate – to its…
Category: Breach Incidents
ID: St. Luke’s vendor suffers data breach affecting some patients
KMVT reports: St. Luke’s says it was informed by a business vendor of a data breach the vendor says could have affected patients and members of certain customers. The hospital system says one of its vendors informed them of a cybersecurity incident that occurred in late May of this year. The vendor had a contract…
Growing risk to Indonesian citizens’ privacy as breaches and leaks appear on marketplaces
On July 22, DataBreaches reported on some recent breaches affecting Thai citizens and residents. In researching that post, DataBreaches was struck by the number of listings or offerings of data from ASEAN countries. In this post, DataBreaches provides a partial listing of some recent leaks or breaches affecting Indonesian citizens and residents. In general, the…
Digital security giant Entrust breached by ransomware gang
Lawrence Abrams reports: Digital security giant Entrust has confirmed that it suffered a cyberattack where threat actors breached their network and stole data from internal systems. Entrust is a security firm focused on online trust and identity management, offering a wide range of services, including encrypted communications, secure digital payments, and ID issuance solutions. Depending…
Months after Lopes claimed no anomalies found in their system, hackers were in their system
Lopes is a Brazilian firm that provides real estate services in the form of brokerage and project and financial consulting. Lopes had what appears to be a data breach involving customer data earlier this year. But why the data breach may have continued for months after they denied finding any anomaly in their system is…
Croatia’s data protection regulator fines telecom €285,000 for insufficient security that facilitated data breach
Summary: The Croatian DPA has fined a telecommunications company EUR 285,000. The company had suffered a data breach. Attackers had managed to access data from about 100,000 data subjects. During its investigation, the DPA found that such a breach was facilitated by the company’s failure to implement adequate technical and organizational security measures for the…