Update: The Washington Post, who broke the story, updated their coverage to indicate that the threat actors are DarkSide. DataBreaches.net, who had recently interviewed DarkSide, reached out to ask them for a comment about the Colonial Pipeline report. They politely responded “Hello, no comments,” but then immediately sent another reply explaining, “At the time of…
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Massive hack exposes emails from top Lightfoot officials
Tom Schuba reports: A massive cache of tens of thousands of hacked emails detailing the inner workings of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration was leaked to the public last month apparently in response to the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. The emails were posted online on April 19 by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a…
Timberland Regional Library Takes Action After Learning of Data Security Incident
TUMWATER, Wash., May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Timberland Regional Library (“TRL”) announced today that it has taken action after learning of a data security incident which may have involved the personal information of its patrons. TRL began providing notification to all potentially impacted individuals on May 5, 2021. What Happened? – On January 20, 2021, TRL became aware of a potential…
The City of Chicago Provides Notice of Jones Day Incident Due to Accellion Hack
CHICAGO, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The City of Chicago today announced that a third-party vendor executing a data transfer of a select group of City email files given to the law firm Jones Day as part of an independent inquiry being conducted by the firm became subject to a security breach. The breach, which at no time…
Cyber criminals potentially accessed data of 10,000 people in Brevard School Board breach
Bailey Gallion reports: Cyber criminals accessed the identifying information of about 10,000 people last year through the email accounts of 12 Brevard County School Board employees, a school district spokesperson said Friday. The School Board became aware of strange activity in its systems on Oct. 31, 2020, and on Jan. 4 determined that someone had…
Ro: Cluj County Council’s website was hacked by hackers. They are asking for $100 in bitcoins
Digi24 reports that the Cluj County Council was hacked and the threat actors demand $100 USD in BTC if the council doesn’t want the files dumped. The following is a translation of the defacement: All files have been encrypted and a backup copy of the site has been saved. If you do not want the…