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Category: Business Sector
Facebook sues Ukrainian who scraped the data of 178 million users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Facebook has filed a lawsuit on Friday against a Ukrainian national for allegedly scraping its website and selling the personal data of more than 178 million users on an underground cybercrime forum. According to court documents filed today, the man was identified as Alexander Alexandrovich Solonchenko, a resident of Kirovograd, Ukraine. Facebook alleges that Solonchenko…
CT: Wiggin and Dana law firm discloses ransomware attack
A Connecticut law firm is disclosing a breach that is still under investigation. The firm claims that it was in July that they received confirmation of data access. They do not reveal when the attack actually occurred or when it was first detected. DataBreaches.net has written to the firm to ask for clarification on the…
Thief Who Swiped 94,000 Credit Card Numbers At Michaels Stores In NY, NJ, CT, PA Sentenced
Jerry DeMarco reports an update to a breach previously covered extensively on this site over the past decade. A member of an ID theft ring that stole more than $600,000 from customers at Michaels stores in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison on Thursday. Jose “Tito”…
Olympus US and Sinclair Broadcast Group hacks tied to sanctioned Russian ransomware group
Zack Whittaker and Carly Page report: An “ongoing” cyberattack against the Japanese technology giant Olympus was caused by a Russian ransomware group sanctioned by the U.S. government, according to two people with knowledge of the incident. A new malware variant known as Macaw was used in the attack that began on October 10, which encrypted Olympus’…
A massive ‘stalkerware’ leak puts the phone data of thousands at risk
Zack Whittaker reports: The private phone data of hundreds of thousands of people are at risk. Call records, text messages, photos, browsing history, precise geolocations and call recordings can all be pulled from a person’s phone because of a security issue in widely used consumer-grade spyware. But that’s about as much as we can tell you….