Waqas reports: New Skills Academy, a major online learning provider based in Hertford, United Kingdom has suffered a data breach in which account information of its customers has been exposed to unauthorized sources. According to New Skills Academy’s data breach notification email seen by Hackread.com, the number of victims impacted by the breach is yet…
Category: Breach Incidents
Cybersecurity: Hacker Gets Thousands of Confidential Data on LimeVPN Users
Alec G. reports: One hacker has gotten his hands on all the LimeVPN provider’s users and is currently selling them on a popular hacker forum. What Went Down? First to report the incident was PrivacySharks, the supposed no-logs VPN service that has encountered a massive data breach that puts 69,400 users at risk. Unfortunately, there was…
Western Digital to provide recovery services for hacked NAS drives
Western Digital has announced a new trade-in programme to help customers mitigate the effects of a mass malware attack that saw terabytes of data wiped from users’ NAS drives overnight. Those who lost data as a result of the hack will be able to benefit from Western Digital’s data recovery services, as well as a…
JP: Japan Airport Refueling Co. discloses ransomware incident; refueling work not impacted
Security NEXT reports that Japan Airport Refueling, which provides aircraft refueling services, experienced a ransomware attack. A machine translation of the report says, in part, that the company’s internal network failed in the early morning of June 21. Investigation confirmed that it was a ransomware attack, and the company received a ransom demand to decrypt…
IA: Peoples Community Health Clinic notifying patients after discovering compromise of employee email account
Peoples Community Health Clinic in Iowa has been notifying some patients as a result of an employee’s email account being compromised. As explained in their press release*, on March 22, 2021, PCHC became aware of suspicious activity related to an employee’s email account. An investigation revealed that between March 18, 2021 and March 22, 2021,…
University Medical Center of Southern Nevada attacked by REvil threat actors
See update at bottom of this post for statement from UMCSN. They do confirm that there was a breach. The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, who proudly proclaims itself the official healthcare provider for the Vegas Golden Knights, has allegedly been the victim of a cyberattack by REvil (Sodinokibi) threat actors. The well-known ransomware…