Katrina Manson reports: The massive breach of a decentralized finance project bears the hallmarks of a North Korean attack, according to a senior White House official. Mixin Network, which helps blockchains handle transactions more efficiently, said it had lost less than $150 million in a late-September attack. Originally the company estimated it lost $200 million…
Category: Breach Incidents
Clorox Expects Double-Digit Sales Drop Following Cyberattack
Michael Novinson reports: Household cleaning product giant Clorox said Wednesday that an August cyberattack had taken a big swipe out of the bleach maker’s sales and profits in the quarter that ended Sept. 30. The Oakland, California-based manufacturer maker expects organic sales to drop between 21% and 26% due to widespread disruption, order processing delays…
Data breach at MGM Resorts expected to cost casino giant $100 million
Wyatte Grantham-Philips reports: The data breach last month that MGM Resorts is calling a cyberattack is expected to cost the casino giant more than $100 million, the Las Vegas-based company said. The incident, which was detected on Sept. 10, led to MGM shutting down some casino and hotel computer systems at properties across the U.S. in efforts…
OrthoAlaska notifies 176,203 patients of breach. When was the breach? (1)
On October 12, 2022 — almost a full year ago — OrthoAlaska discovered unauthorized activity on their systems. On March 3, 2023, they learned that information on former employees was stored in the system. On April 3, 2023, they notified those affected. And that’s where things remained until September 22, 2023, when OrthoAlaska notified HHS…
D.C. Board of Elections voter registration data up for sale on dark web (1)
A new listing on ransomedvc claims, “We have successfully breached the District of Columbia Board Of Elections and have gotten more than 600k lines of USA Voters.” The listing links to a sample consisting of one registered voter’s data. That listing included a number of fields with, but not limited to, VoterID, registration date, voter’s…
INC Ransomware claims to have hit Federal Labor Relations Authority
On September 20, a relatively new ransomware gang called INC Ransomware added the Federal Labor Relations Authority to their leak site. As proof, they offered six images of files, two of which appear to contain personal information from cases or submissions involving care. In response to a request from this site, INC also provided DataBreaches…