Abhishek Mishra reports on one of the revelations in court filings related to the arrest of the owner of RaidForums and the takedown of the forum: T-Mobile, one of the largest phone carriers in the U.S., tried to pay the hackers to get back its customer data leaked in a previous breach. The move backfired…
Category: U.S.
Update: No sensitive data taken during District 518 cybersecurity breach
On March 8, Kari Lucin at The Globe reported that District 518 in Minnesota had confirmed a data breach involving an employee’s email account, but didn’t anticipate a big problem. Yesterday, Lucin followed up with the district’s confirmation that no personal information or data had been taken or used in the February incident. An investigation…
LockBit ransomware gang lurked in a U.S. gov network for months
Bill Toulas reports: A regional U.S. government agency compromised with LockBit ransomware had the threat actor in its network for at least five months before the payload was deployed, security researchers found. Logs retrieved from the compromised machines showed that two threat groups had compromised them and were engaged in reconnaissance and remote access operations….
Update to Christie Clinics breach disclosure
On March 25, Christie Business Holdings Company, P.C. (“Christie Clinic”) disclosed a breach. As DataBreaches.net reported the next day, the clinic reported that an unauthorized actor had gained access to one business email account between July 14, 2021 and August 19, 2021. Christie’s investigation indicated that the intent of the attacker may have been to…
NYS Comptroller releases more school district IT Audits
Readers may want to read the full LaFargeville report, linked below, because it provides information to school districts about best practices and recommendations for how to accomplish certain security goals. LaFargeville Central School District – Information Technology (Jefferson County) Key Findings District officials did not establish adequate IT controls over physical IT assets and non-student user…
TN: Humphreys County sheriffs arrest two for forgery, identity theft, outstanding felony warrants
Darby McCarthy reports: Early Saturday morning, Humphreys County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Team B Nights arrested Letia Leco of Camden and Richard Flowers of Jackson on charges of forgery, identity theft and outstanding felony warrants from multiple jurisdictions. Leco and Flowers were found at a hotel in Buffalo with several hundred forged commercial bank checks, over…