More than two years after he was extradited from the Czech Republic where he was arrested in 2016 for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, Russian national Yevgeniy Nikulin was sentenced today to 88 months by Judge William Alsup in federal court in northern California. Nikulin, also known as “Chinabig01,” “dex.007, ” “valeriy.krutov3, and “itBlackHat,” had…
Category: Breach Incidents
Security lapse exposes hundreds of addresses of Minnesotans infected with COVID-19
Jay Kolls reports: In April, Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order allowing the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety to share addresses of COVID-19 patients with first responders across Minnesota. The governor imposed strict guidelines for sharing those addresses to protect the identity of Minnesotans with COVID-19. MDH and…
Ransomware Threat Actors Dump Data on Clark County School District Employees and Students
Tawnell D. Hobbs reports: A hacker published documents containing Social Security numbers, student grades and other private information stolen from a large public-school district in Las Vegas after officials refused a ransom demanded in return for unlocking district computer servers. The illegal release late last week of sensitive information from the Clark County School District…
Interim Report on Blackbaud Breach: 5.6 million patients and counting…
Since our first interim report, DataBreaches.net has continued to compile reports that mention patient information that was disclosed to Blackbaud and that may have been accessed or exfiltrated by ransomware threat actors in the data breach discovered in May. Despite the criminals pinky-swearing that they wouldn’t misuse the data and would destroy it all in…
Maryland Man Sentenced to Prison for Intentionally Damaging the Computers of His Former Employer
From DOJ, this press release today about a case where a former employee exceeded previously authorized access: A Maryland man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today to 12 months and one day in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally accessing and damaging the computer network of…
International Sting Against Dark Web Vendors Leads to 179 Arrests — Europol
A major press release from Europol today: Today, a coalition of law enforcement agencies across the world announced the results of a coordinated operation known as DisrupTor which targeted vendors and buyers of illicit goods on the dark web. This operation follows the takedown in May of last year of Wall Street Market, the world’s then…