On October 12, researcher Bob Diachenko tweeted: Since Fri I’ve been trying to get in touch with someone from ActMobile [@ActMobile] to responsibly alert that their VPN userbase (45M+) info (email, pwd, IPs, devices etc) is exposed to public but no luck. Incl. but not limited to @DashVPN, https://t.co/sdN3byHNcJ. Anyone? — Bob Diachenko (@MayhemDayOne) October…
Category: Breach Incidents
WA: Sea Mar Community Health Centers discloses breach that began last year
Sea Mar Community Health Centers in Washington state is a community-based organization that describes itself as being committed to providing quality and comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington state. On some exact date that is unknown to DataBreaches.net, threat actors gained access to…
Samaritan Daytop Village discloses breach
Samaritan Daytop Village, Inc. (“SDV”) has disclosed a breach that they first discovered on September 22. The not-for-profit, which started 60 years ago as an outpatient drug treatment services provider but expanded its scope, reports that they could not be sure whether data was actually viewed, exfiltrated, neither, or both. It is all still under…
Blue Shield of California insurance broker victim of ransomware attack
Blue Shield of California has disclosed that a ransomware attack on an insurance broker, Team Alvarez Insurance Services, has impacted 2,858 Blue Shield members’ information including names and one or more of the following: health insurance information, health plan member ID number, date of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and physical addresses. No Blue Shield…
Warwick Valley Dispatch social media platform breached
The Warwick Valley Dispatch has a brief notice on their web site: On October 17, 2021; Warwick Valley Dispatch became aware of suspicious and unauthorized activity and discovered a breach in our social media platforms. The breach did not expose any sensitive data to potential risk, and no highly sensitive, personal information has been compromised…
Cyber-attack hits UK internet phone providers
BBC reports: An “unprecedented” and co-ordinated cyber-attack has struck multiple UK-based providers of voice over internet protocol (VoIP) services, according to an industry body. Industry body Comms Council UK said several of its members had been targeted by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in recent weeks. “An overall threat has been made to the…