Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: On Monday, the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project announced that its Instagram account had been hacked in a tweet. “There is no mint going on today. It looks like BAYC Instagram was hacked. Do not mint anything, click links, or link your wallet to anything,” the group wrote. Read more at Vice. At…
Category: Breach Incidents
New York dental insurer reports phishing incident, French hospital group hit in ransomware incident
Healthplex, Inc. in New York provides dental insurance plans. On November 24, 2021, an employee reportedly fell for a phishing attempt. As a result, the insurer notified 76,262 of their insured members whose personal information may have been impacted. They do not make clear whether their investigation confirmed access and exfiltration or just access, so…
Silent no more: Exposing a campaign that intimidated researchers and journalists
On April 20, DataBreaches.net reported that a threat actor contacted this site to say that a researcher, @ido_cohen2, had been scared off the internet after the threat actor’s colleague(s) used a fake Emergency Data Request (EDR) to obtain the researcher’s account information from Twitter. DataBreaches could see that @ido_cohen2’s Twitter account had been deleted and…
NH: Center for Life Management breach impacted mental health clients
From their notice: The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester (“MHCGM”) is providing notice of a recent data security event that occurred at a third-party community partner MHCGM had used for data storage, Center for Life Management (“CLM”), that may impact the privacy of certain information relating to MHCGM patients or those who were assessed…
Illinois Gastroenterology Group is providing notification of breach first discovered last October
From their notification: Illinois Gastroenterology Group, PLLC (“IGG”) is providing notice of a recent incident that may affect the security of certain individuals’ information. On October 22, 2021, IGG discovered unusual activity within its computer network. IGG immediately launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party cybersecurity specialists, to determine the nature and scope of the…
Illuminate Education breach that affected NYC schools spreads to other districts
Benjamin Freed reports: A school district in Coventry, Connecticut, notified families of its students this week that students’ data may have been swept up in a breach of one of its vendors earlier this year. The breach-notification letter, dated Tuesday, stated that data belonging to the roughly 1,700 students enrolled in Coventry Public Schools may have…