From DataBreaches’ “Now what does THIS mean?” file, a notification letter from Dell & Dean PLLC, a law firm in New York. On July 17, Dell & Dean’s external counsel notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office about a breach in September 2022 that affected 6,803 people. A copy of the firm’s notification letter was appended…
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Hackers claim Disney data theft in protest against AI-generated artwork
Alex Hern reports: Hacktivists claim to have stolen more than a terabyte of data from Disney’s internal chat platform and are leaking the information online in a protest against what they say is the company’s anti-artist stance. The group, which calls itself NullBulge, has been active since at least May. It claims to be motivated…
AT&T Says New Hack Includes Records of Customer Calls, Texts
Christopher Palmieri reports: AT&T Inc. suffered a massive hack of customer data — separate from one reported earlier this year — that included records of calls and texts for nearly all of its mobile-phone users for a six-month period in 2022, one of the biggest breaches of private communications data in recent memory. The company said…
State attorneys general send warnings of Change Healthcare breach, urge residents to respond
Read Change Healthcare’s Substitute Notice. Individual notices will go out at the end of July, but they may not have your address to notify you individually. Chad Van Alstin writes: Multiple state attorney generals have sent notices, informing residents about the Change Healthcare breach and urging them to enroll in the credit monitoring and identity…
Meow Leaks: The Interview
Over on SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice writes: We are exclusively publishing the interview that we conducted with the Meow Leaks group and which they gave us in these last hours. We had known the Meow Leaks group as a group attributable, at least for the programming code used, to the Conti (v2) ransomware group….
Za: South African mining giant hacked
Myles Illidge reports: Local mining giant Sibanye-Stillwater, one of the world’s biggest producers of platinum and gold, has revealed that its global IT systems have suffered a cyberattack. In a notice informing stakeholders, the company said it has implemented security measures to isolate its IT systems and protect critical data. Read more at MyBroadband.