Sam Varghese reports: A Melbourne firm which suffered a hit from cyber criminals using the Windows REvil ransomware has denied that any data was exfiltrated from its site, as was reported in these columns. A spokesperson from Nexia Australia and New Zealand, a network of solutions-focused accountancy and consultancy firms, said the attack had taken…
Category: Hack
It: Gaiba municipality central server hacked
The following is a Google translation: The Municipality of Gaiba informs all interested parties (residents and non-residents) that on the night of 6.11.2020 it was the subject of a cyber attack that violated the personal data on the central server. The Authority has promptly activated and is proceeding to notify the data breach to the…
Alibaba-Backed Bigbasket Suffers Major Data Loss in Cyberattack
Saritha Rai has more on the BigBasket breach reported this past week: Cyberattackers have stolen the personal details of million users of top Indian internet grocer Bigbasket, the latest e-commerce data breach to emerge as home-bound consumers flock online. Bigbasket co-founder and chief executive officer Hari Menon confirmed the attack, which was first reported by…
Luxottica has a lot more explaining to do
Update: My source was correct. On November 12, HHS added Luxottica’s report to their public breach tool. Luxottica reported, as a business associate, that 829,454 patients were impacted by the August breach. In September, we learned that the eyewear giant Luxottica had suffered a massive ransomware attack that resulted in its suspending operations in both…
UK: ‘Thousands’ of people could have had personal details in cyber attack on Sandicliffe car dealership
For what… about 14 years now… I have pointed out how many non-medical entities hold sensitive medical information on consumers that may get caught up in breaches. Today’s example is out of the U.K., where Phoebe Ram reports: The bank account details and medical histories of ‘possibly thousands’ of people were stolen during a cyber…
Lawrence General Hospital notifying patients of breach
Lawrence General Hospital in Massachusetts is notifying patients of a breach that occurred in September. In their disclosure, LGH notes that on September 19, they discovered a “data security incident that disrupted the operations of our IT systems.” Their investigation determined that an unauthorized party “may have accessed its IT systems between September 9, 2020…