DataBreaches.net recently noted some research by SafetyDetective about whether baby cams were posing privacy and security risks. Today, BBC reports: A webcam system that lets parents drop in and watch their children while at nursery school has written to families to tell them of a data breach. NurseryCam said it did not believe the incident…
Category: Breach Incidents
Omnicom Media Group reportedly falls prey to cyber attack
Janice Tan reports: Omnicom Media Group has reportedly been hit by a cyber attack, resulting in the agency turning to third-party experts to identify the IT disruption, AdAge reported. OMG said it has experienced “disruption to parts of its IT network” in recent days, which was caused by a cyber incident. According to AdAge, OMG said it…
Threat actors claim to have stolen Jones Day files; law firm remains quiet
Over on AdvIntel, Tyler Combs has a post about threat actors attacking law firms. Many of us are already aware of a number of law firms who have been attacked and who have had their firm’s files dumped publicly when they refused to pay ransom demands, but if the biggest law firms fall prey, what…
The Trigano company victim of a cyberattack, the Tournon-sur-Rhône plant shut down
François Breton reports (translation): The manufacturer of caravans, motorhomes, camping furniture and mobile homes was the victim of a cyberattack on Tuesday February 9. It prevents access to computers. The factory based in Tournon-sur-Rhône (Ardèche) is therefore at a standstill this Friday, February 12. Read more on Franceblue.fr. Although the company acknowledged that this was…
TX: Threat actors dump patient files from Nocona General Hospital
On February 3, Conti threat actors added Nocona General Hospital in Texas to their leak site, posting 20 files as proof that they had accessed the hospital’s files. Many of the files contained patient records from 2018, and appeared to be pdf scans or doc files. They did not appear to be records from any…
University of Colorado responds to Accellion breach
California-based Accellion has already released statements about a breach they experienced. And they have already been hit with at least one lawsuit over the breach. But we are still first learning about how some of their clients were impacted. Today we learned that the University of Colorado is investigating whether there was any personal, confidential,…