Marco A. De Felice reports: The group of cybercriminals Sodinokibi (REvil) has published some screenshots of the data stolen during the cyber attack on the servers of the Milanese pharmaceutical company. Read more on SuspectFile. Mipharm.it is just one of two pharmacological research firms noted on threat actors’ sites recently. Avaddon threat actors claim to…
Category: Breach Incidents
Es: A cyber attack affected the city council of Xixona
The municipality of Jijona/Xixona in Spain has issued a notice about a cyberattack, but there are not many details. The notice on their web site, posted on April 23, says that the attack has seriously crippled city services (translated): The technicians are trying to reset the computer system and we hope we can fix it…
Will Beacon Health Solutions’ incident prompt OCR to start enforcing notification “without undue delay?”
The following is a DataBreaches.net commentary. Beacon Health Solutions issued a press release yesterday about a breach they experienced last year as a business associate. Their press release provides a useful example of why OCR needs to get serious about enforcing the requirement that entities notify patients within 60 days of “discovery.” “Discovery” does not…
Domino’s India Allegedly Hacked: 7 Years of Internal Docs, 10 Lakh Credit Cards on Sale for Rs 3.4 Crore
Shouvik Das reports: Domino’s India, the popular pizza delivery chain, reportedly faced a data breach that includes internal company documents of the past seven years, private data belonging to over 250 employees, customer details from over 18 crore food orders and over 10 lakh credit cards that may have been saved during checkout and payments. The…
Most imitated brands in phishing emails in first quarter of 2021: report
I don’t know about you, but we’re seeing a ton of new fraud attempts via messages. Keep yourself and your relatives safe (especially relatives who may not be particularly scam savvy), by telling them what to expect. Audrey Conklin reports: Microsoft and delivery service DHL led a list of the 10 most-imitated brands in global phishing attempts in…
Software developer charged with damaging the computer system of a Cleveland company
Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland has returned an indictment charging Davis Lu, 51, of Houston, Texas, with one count of damaging protected computers. The Defendant is accused of using his position as a software developer to execute malicious code on his employer’s computer servers. The…