Jonathan Manzi has a story he wants to tell you about his “Journey Through Digital Ethics, Policy, Love and Fear, and Intention, Which Started With a Homeless Lady in San Francisco.” Decide whether you want to read his perspective first and then read the government’s version of events, or vice versa. h/t, Risky Biz News
Category: Hack
Oreo cookie maker says crooks gobbled up staff info
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: Mondelez International has warned 51,000 of its past and present employees that their personal information has been stolen from a law firm hired by the Oreo and Ritz cracker giant. To be clear, the miscreants didn’t infiltrate Mondelez’s IT estate: they broke into Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP‘s network. And as…
Ransomware Gang Haunted US Firms Long Before MOVEit Hack
Jamie Tarabay reports: Shell Plc, IAG SA’s British Airways, the British Broadcasting Corp., the state of Minnesota’s Department of Education, multiple federal agencies — they’re among the victims of the latest data breach launched by Clop, a Russian-speaking hacking group that’s attacking targets around the world in both the public and private sectors. The Clop gang, also known as…
16,000 Vermont health insurance customers affected by Fortra/GoAnywhere breach, more than previously known
DataBreaches continues to keep an eye out for reports on how the Fortra/GoAnywhere breach affected the healthcare sector. Here’s another report, this one by Tiffany Tan: The personal information of at least 16,000 Vermont health insurance customers was stolen in a cyberattack in January — more than twice the number originally reported. The affected people…
Former RAIDforums member “DataBox” sentenced to prison by Amsterdam court
A former member of RAIDForums was sentenced to prison today by an Amsterdam court. The 25-year-old man, Erkan Sezgin, was known as “DataBox” on RAIDforums when he listed the data of millions of Austrians for sale. Sezgin, who was employed as a data engineer at Matrixian Group, was arrested in November 2022 and detained until…
BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data
As if Reddit wasn’t already having serious issues these days, they have allegedly been hacked by AlphV (aka BlackCat), who write: Operators broke into Reddit on February 5, 2023, and took 80 gigabytes (zipped) of data. Reddit was emailed twice by operators, once on April 13 and one again on June 16. There was no…