August 30, 2024 – The Federal Trade Commission will require security camera firm Verkada to develop and implement a comprehensive information security program to settle allegations the company failed to use appropriate information security practices, which allowed a hacker to access customers’ security cameras. Under a proposed order, which must be approved by a federal…
Category: Breach Incidents
American Radio Relay League paid $1 million ransom payment
ARRL is the national association for Amateur Radio in the US. Founded in 1914 by Hiram Percy Maxim as The American Radio Relay League, ARRL is a noncommercial organization of radio amateurs. ARRL numbers within its ranks the vast majority of active radio amateurs in the nation and has a proud history of achievement as the standard-bearer in amateur affairs. ARRL’s…
Reward for Information: Belarusian National Volodymyr Kadariya
REWARD FOR INFORMATION: BELARUSIAN NATIONAL VOLODYMYR KADARIYA REWARD OF UP TO $2.5 MILLION [Wanted poster in English-508 compliant] [200 KB] [Wanted poster in Belarusian] [240 KB] [Wanted poster in Russian] [240 KB] [Wanted poster in Spanish] [244 KB] NAME: Volodymyr Kadariya ALIASES: Vladimir Kadaria, Volodymyr Kadariya, Владимир Кадария, Andrii Kovalov DOB: 2 March 1986 POB: Belarus NATIONALITY: Belarusian CITIZENSHIP: Belarusian HEIGHT: 5’8” WEIGHT: 200 lbs HAIR…
Toyota’s cyber woes continue as latest breach marks fifth major IT incident in two years
Solomon Klappholz reports: Toyota is once again in the headlines after a hacker collective claimed to have exfiltrated 240GB of sensitive data from the car manufacturer’s internal systems. Toyota has confirmed its network was breached after a threat actor listed a 240GB trove of data stolen from the company’s internal systems on an underground hacking forum. The…
How many times has Carespring Health Management been attacked since last year? (1)
In October 2023, Carespring Health Care Management was the victim of a ransomware attack. It was not announced on its website, but in November, Carespring was listed on the NoEscape ransomware gang’s site. At the time, the threat actors claimed they had encrypted Carespring’s files and exfiltrated 364 GB of files. The incident never appeared…
National Public Data reports highly publicized breach affected a total 1.3 million people
There has been a lot of publicity about a breach and then leak of data from National Public Data. Some early reports erroneously claimed that 2.9 billion people were affected. Other sources noted more accurately noted that 2.9 billion was the number of records and not the number of unique individuals. In its disclosure to…