Remember in November, 2020 when Japanese gaming giant Capcom fell victim to a ransomware attack? The Ragnar_Locker threat actors demanded $11 million ransom, and when the firm didn’t pay, they started dumping data. Capcom’s updates on the incident noted that approximately 15,000 people had their personal information involved, but no credit card information was involved….
Category: Breach Incidents
Northwestern Illinois Area Agency on Aging notifyng clients of breach
The Northwestern Illinois Area Agency on Aging has posted a breach notification of sorts on its web site. It doesn’t explain exactly what kinds of data or details on their clients were accessed, nor how many people had personal information accessed. NIAAA’s electronically stored client data possibly was accessed sometime between March 5 to March…
BioTel Heart Notice of Breach of Personal Information
Cardiac biotelemetry firm BioTel seems to be issuing public notices about a data leak incident first reported on this site in August, 2020. The data were only secured when Amazon was contacted by a researcher and asked to reach out to their customer to secure the data. Neither BioTel nor its vendor had responded to…
IA: Des Moines Area Community College investigating possible breach
Des Moines Area Community College reportedly discovered a security problem Wednesday which forced them to take some of their computer systems offline. Read about it on KCCI. Attempts to connect to DMACC this mornng returned a 503 error. Looking at their Twitter account, however, we find: UPDATE (6/3/21): #DMACC IT is currently working to restore…
Apache Pizza announce data breach associated with details of delivery customers
First it was Domino’s Pizza in India. Then it was New York Pizza in the Netherlands. And now it’s Apache Pizza, a chain of take-out pizza delivery restaurants in Ireland. They have reportedly confirmed that they had a cybersecurity breach that resulted in information about deliveries being accessed by threat actors. “Apache Pizza has notified its…
Fr: Produits de Revêtement du Bâtiment hit by cyberattack
Philippe Rey-Gorez reports that Produits de Revêtement du Bâtiment has been hit by a cyberattack (machine translation): A cyber-attack affected the company Vendée PRB during the night from Friday to Saturday. The company, located in Les Achards, near Les Sables d’Olonne, specializes in the production of facade coatings for buildings. It is also known for…