Earlier today, AlphV added MeridianLink to their leak site. MeridianLink (MLNK) is the provider of a loan origination system and digital lending platform for financial institutions. AlphV’s listing has been temporarily removed to be updated, but DataBreaches has learned some additional details from someone involved in the attack. The attack was last Tuesday, November 7….
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Data security breach at Beaverton School District
KGW reports: The Beaverton School District has been hit by a cybersecurity breach that may have compromised student passwords, the district announced in a message posted to its website and sent to parents Tuesday evening. Student passwords to email accounts, Google documents, Canva and other platforms all may have been compromised. The district said it…
Gang says ICBC paid ransom over hack that disrupted US Treasury market, ‘deal closed’
James Pearson reports: China’s biggest lender, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, paid a ransom after it was hacked last week, a Lockbit ransomware gang representative said on Monday in a statement which Reuters was unable to independently verify. ICBC, whose U.S. arm was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted trades in the…
Denmark Hit With Largest Cyberattack on Record
Chris Riotta reports: Hackers potentially linked to the Russian GRU Main Intelligence Directorate carried out a series of highly coordinated cyberattacks targeting Danish critical infrastructure in the nation’s largest cyber incident on record, according to a new report. SektorCERT, a nonprofit cybersecurity center for critical sectors in Denmark, reported that attackers gained access to the…
Time’s up, Sunday edition: Some Jeffco Public Schools data was leaked, some data was put up for sale
As first reported on DataBreaches on Friday, SingularityMD indicated that they would be leaking or selling Jeffco Public Schools data. They followed through. In one thread on a popular hacking forum, they leaked what they claim is a 500 MB csv file for an AD Export from November 2020. The leak contains “includes hashed passwords,…
Time’s up: SingularityMD sets up to sell data from Jeffco Public Schools
It looks like “SingularityMD,” the hacker(s) of Clark County School District in Nevada and Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado, are looking to start selling the data they exfiltrated. In an introductory post today on Breach Forums, they write: We are SingularityMD. We specialize in low sophistication corporate network infiltration. We are behind the following hacks…