A press release from EFF: San Francisco—On Thursday, April 13, at 10:00 am Pacific Time (1:00 pm Eastern Time, 7 pm CEST), experts with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and four international allies will brief reporters on the grave threat to human rights posed by ongoing UN Cybercrime Treaty negotiations that could lead to broad surveillance…
Category: Breach Incidents
Noteboom – The Law Firm hit by BlackCat
On March 24, BlackCat emailed Noteboom – The Law Firm, a Texas personal injury law firm. The email, shared with DataBreaches by BlackCat, appeared to be sent from the firm’s own systems administrator, Paul Khong. With some light editing by DataBreaches to correct some typos, it read: This is [ALPHV] aka BlackCat Ransomware Team. We…
Illinois’s Olympia CUSD 16 hit by LockBit3.0
LockBit3.0 claims to have hit the Olympia CUSD 16 in Illinois. So far, they have posted 4 files as proof, one of which appears to be a screencap of a directory of folders that might relate to Olympia North, Olympia South, and students, and another file with employee health-related information. There does not appear to…
Criminal Marketplace Disrupted in International Cyber Operation — DOJ
The U.S. Department of Justice’s press release on the seizure of Genesis Market: The Justice Department announced today a coordinated international operation against Genesis Market, a criminal online marketplace that advertised and sold packages of account access credentials – such as usernames and passwords for email, bank accounts, and social media – that had been…
Japan braced for rise in ransomware attacks after data breach
Leo Lewis and Kana Inagaki report: A hacking attack at Japan’s largest IT company is spilling across the country’s corporate sector, with cyber security experts warning that it could trigger a surge in attempts by organised criminal gangs to extort hefty ransoms from companies and their customers. More than 10 Japanese companies have said in…
UnitedLex hit by d0nut ransomware team, 200 GB of corporate files leaked (update4)
The d0nut ransomware team seems to be ramping up their activity and leaks. Last week, they contacted DataBreaches about Montgomery General Hospital in West Virginia. Today, they reached out to this site about UnitedLex, a firm that describes itself as helping legal teams modernize “with a consultative framework that brings together legal subject matter expertise,…