Earlier this week, Zack Whittaker reported: The website for ODIN Intelligence, a company that provides technology and tools for law enforcement and police departments, was defaced on Sunday. The apparent hack comes days after Wired reported that an app developed by the company, SweepWizard, which allows police to manage and coordinate multi-agency raids, had a significant security…
Category: Hack
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
CR: Ministry of Public Works and Transportation Hit by Ransomware Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) has been the target of a ransomware attack by as yet unidentified individuals. The attack was reported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT) (machine translation): Since early hours of this Tuesday, the…
T-Mobile discloses yet another data breach; this one hits 37 million
It seems like litigation from one T-Mobile data breach is barely settled when we are reading about yet another T-Mobile breach. AP reports the carrier disclosed that an unidentified threat actor breached its network in late November and stole data on 37 million customers. The data stolen included addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth….
34,942 PayPal users notified of data security incident in December
PayPal has sent breach notifications to 34,942 users this week. Their notification reads, in part: On December 20, 2022, we confirmed that unauthorized parties were able to access your PayPal customer account using your login credentials. We have no information suggesting that any of your personal information was misused as a result of this incident,…
Mailchimp says it was hacked — again
Zack Whittaker reports: Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers’ data was exposed. It’s the second time the company was hacked in the past six months. Worse, this breach appears to be almost identical to a previous incident. The Intuit-owned company said in an unattributed blog post that its security team detected an intruder…
Russia-linked drug marketplace Solaris hacked by its rival
Over in the no-honor-among-thieves department, Daryna Antoniuk reports: Solaris, one of the leading darknet drug marketplaces, has been taken over by its rival, according to research released this week. Users who tried to access Solaris after January 13 were redirected to the recently-launched Russian language drug marketplace known as Kraken, which claimed to have successfully taken over…