Benworth Capital Partners PR LLC is a licensed lender in Florida that describes itself as a “hard money lender.” Benworth claims they make the decisions to fund hard money loans “based on our unique criteria that’s a lot different than a bank, credit union, or mainstream online lender. The funds used for our hard money…
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Attorney General James and Multistate Coalition Secure $5.1 Million from Illuminate Education For Failing to Protect Students’ Data
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced that they have secured $5.1 million from educational technology company Illuminate Education, Inc. (Illuminate) for failing to protect students’ data. Illuminate provides software to schools and school districts across the country to track students’ attendance…
The Congressional Budget Office was hacked. It says it has implemented new security measures.
Fatima Hussein reports: The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday confirmed it had been hacked, potentially disclosing important government data to malicious actors. The small government office, with some 275 employees, provides objective, impartial analysis to support lawmakers during the budget process. It is required to produce a cost estimate for nearly every bill approved by…
Clop Ransomware group claims the breach of The Washington Post
Pierluigi Paganini reports: The Clop Ransomware group announced the hack of the prestigious American daily newspaper The Washington Post. The cybercrime group created a page for the university on its Tor data leak site and announced it will leak the stolen data soon. The group claimed the company was breached due to its neglect of security, despite its…
Nevada Refused to Pay Cyberattack Ransom as Systems Sat Compromised for Months
Mark Pearson reports: According to an official document newly released by the Nevada office responsible for the state’s technology infrastructure, Nevada’s state systems sat unknowingly compromised for three months before officials noticed a major ransomware attack and flagged it up in August. […] The perpetrators compromised a password vault server to harvest credentials from 26…
Chicago firm that resolves ransomware attacks had rogue workers carrying out their own hacks, FBI says
Tom Schuba reports: Rogue employees of a Chicago company that specializes in negotiating ransoms to mitigate cyber attacks were carrying out their own piracy in a plot to extort millions of dollars from a series of companies, prosecutors say. Kevin Tyler Martin, a ransomware threat negotiator for River North-based DigitalMint at the time of the…