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…
Category: Breach Incidents
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,…
Cyber attack downs major Israeli university websites
The Jersualem Post reports: Websites of multiple major universities in Israel were attacked by a group of hackers calling themselves “Anonymous Sudan” on Tuesday. Among the websites unavailable for browsing were the sites of Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Haifa University, Weizmann Institute of Science, Open University of Israel…
Are you a “Lucky Winner” from Equifax?
Earlier today, vx-underground reported that a hoax email was being sent from Equifax with the subject line “Free Pompompurin.” An unknown individual has compromised the email system for Equifax. They have sent out an email with the subject matter as “Free Pompompurin”. Image 1. email extended header information Image 2. email itself pic.twitter.com/mlrO99uVdl — vx-underground…
Employee and patient files from Montgomery General Hospital leaked by ransomware group
An email DataBreaches received yesterday from an unrecognized account contained just one line – a link to a new listing on the D#nut Leaks ransomware group’s leak site about Montgomery General Hospital (MGH) in West Virginia. MGH is part of the Montgomery General Health Care System, Inc., which includes the hospital, Montgomery General Elderly Care, Montgomery…
Today’s “Don’t Say ‘Ransomware’ Award” goes to….
DataBreaches probably sounds like a broken record after six years of calls for more transparency in breach notifications. Sadly, the situation has gotten worse in the past year. Not only do entities fail to admit they suffered a ransomware attack, but they fail to inform patients if the patient’s protected health information was leaked or…