On September 25, DataBreaches reported that AlphV had claimed to have attacked MNGI Digestive Health. MNGI never responded to this site’s inquiries at that time or since then. On September 29, AlphV announced “TIME IS UP” and leaked more than 800 GB of what they claim is 2+ TB of data they acquired, adding: Let…
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HC3: Sector Alert Progress Software WS_FTP Critical Vulnerabilities
Progress Software WS_FTP Critical Vulnerabilities Executive Summary Progress Software, the maker of the MOVEit file transfer software which was widely exploited by the CL0P ransomware-as-a-service (Raas) group, has released a new advisory regarding multiple vulnerabilities in the WS_FTP Server, a file transfer product. Two of the vulnerabilities were rated as critical and are being tracked…
Consumers’ Data Breach Suit Against T-Mobile Sent to Arbitrator
Christopher Brown reports: Two customers’ allegations that T-Mobile failed to protect their personal information in a data breach and exposed information allowing their Coinbase cryptocurrency account to be hacked will be heard by an arbitrator. The arbitration agreement between T-Mobile and plaintiffs Jorge and Marcos Rodriguez clearly delegated threshold questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator,…
IRS consultant charged in leak of tax returns for Trump, wealthy Americans
Devlin Barrett and Spencer S. Hsu report: A Washington-based consultant for the Internal Revenue Service was charged Friday with stealing the tax returns of former president Donald Trump and thousands of wealthy Americans in 2019 and 2020 and providing them to two news organizations that reported how little the super-rich pay in federal income taxes,…
Ransomware attack impacts 21 Pinal County school districts
Ford Hatchett reports: Pinal County schools confirmed to ABC15 Thursday night their data processing service consortium was attacked over the weekend, putting paychecks in jeopardy for some school employees this week throughout the 21 districts in the county. Read more at abc15. h/t, @douglevin
Building automation giant Johnson Controls hit by ransomware attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Johnson Controls International has suffered what is described as a massive ransomware attack that encrypted many of the company devices, including VMware ESXi s […] Yesterday, a source told BleepingComputer that Johnson Controls suffered a ransomware attack after initially being breached at its Asia offices. BleepingComputer has since learned that the company…