Morgan Hill Unified School District in California has disclosed a breach that occurred when an employee’s email account was accessed without authorization between September 11 and October 11, 2022. While the district’s investigation was able to confirm connections to the employee’s account during those dates, the investigation was not able to determine which specific emails…
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The U.N. Committee on Human Rights asks Morocco NOT to extradite Raoult
A small and somewhat bitter update to the Sébastien Raoult case. Sébastien’s father contacted DataBreaches tonight to say that they had just received a response from the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. In response to Raoult’s appeal submitted on January 17, the committee responded by asking Morocco not to extradite Raoult while Raoult’s…
HC3: Analyst Note: Pro-Russian Hacktivist Group ‘KillNet’ Threat to HPH Sector
Pro-Russian Hacktivist Group ‘KillNet’ Threat to HPH Sector January 30, 2023 TLP:CLEAR Report: 202301301200 Executive Summary The hacktivist group ‘KillNet’—has targeted the U.S. healthcare industry in the past and is actively targeting the health and public health sector. The group is known to launch DDoS attacks and operates multiple public channels aimed at recruitment and…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
BR: Instituto Federal Do Pará Attack Claimed By BlackCat The Instituto Federal Do Pará (IFPA) is a public education institution in Brazil. On January 21, it was added to the leaks site of the AlphV (BlackCat) group with a message saying, “The guys decided to ignore our ransom demands, so the data of their employees…
JD Sports hit by cyber-attack that accessed 10m customers’ data
Mark Sweney reports: The fashion retailer JD Sports said the personal and financial information of 10 million customers was potentially accessed by hackers in a cyber-attack. The company said incident, which affected some online orders made by customers between November 2018 and October 2020, targeted purchases of products of its JD, Size?, Millets, Blacks, Scotts…
Kremlin-linked Russian businessman faces U.S. trial for hack-and-trade scheme
Nate Raymond reports: A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin faces trial on Monday on U.S. charges that he participated in a vast scheme that generated tens of millions of dollars in illegal trading profits using corporate information stolen through hacking. Jury selection is scheduled to begin in federal court in Boston in…