It appears that law enforcement has caught up with “Lifelock.” DataBreaches.net had reported exclusively on “Lifelock” back in April of 2018, and then again in June and July of 2018. At the time, I pointed out some of the striking similarities between “Lifelock” and “thedarkoverlord” (or the one I refer to as the first spokesperson…
Category: Hack
PA: Delco School District Missing ‘Millions,’ Suggests Hackers Took It
NBC10 reports: A law enforcement investigation is underway Friday after a school district reported it was missing an expected multimillion-dollar payment from the state, and a district official speculated it was due to hackers. The receiver of the Chester Upland School District, Juan Baughn, told the Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday that “millions” were lost due to a “cyber…
TX: Elara Caring notifies more than 100,000 patients after corporate email accounts hacked
Elara Caring, a provider of home-based care, suffered a data security breach that they learned about in mid-December. Last month, they started notifying more than 100,400 patients. A notice on their web site explains that a number of corporate email accounts had been compromised — accounts that contained both employee and patient information. Elara Caring…
TX: ProPath Notifies Patients of Data Security Incident
ProPath Services, LLC in Texas has notified patients of a data security breach stemming from compromise of two employees’ email accounts. The incident occurred in 2020, but ProPath doesn’t state exactly when they first discovered the breach. In a statement on their web site, the pathology service provider explains that on January 28, they learned…
Hollywood’s Elite Private Schools Hacked
Gary Baum reports: Several top L.A. private schools’ digital servers have been breached in recent weeks, and law enforcement is investigating, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. In an apparent pattern, one or more hackers have published staff payroll documentation in email blasts riddled with racist, sexist and homophobic language. […] The institutions known to have been hacked…
Friendly fire: Four well-known cybercriminal forums dealing with breaches
I’ve posted links to some other reports on this topic earlier today, but just came across Intel 471’s post. Sometimes, even criminals are on the bad end of a breach. Since the beginning of the year, Intel 471 has observed four well-known cybercriminal forums dealing with a breach, including two since the beginning of March….