Rebecca Robbins reports: The world’s largest meat processor said on Wednesday that it paid an $11 million ransom in Bitcoin to the hackers behind an attack that forced the shutdown last week of all the company’s U.S. beef plants and disrupted operations at poultry and pork plants. The company, JBS, said in a statement that the decision…
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South Korea’s data watchdog barks warnings at Microsoft and five local firms
Laura Dobberstein reports: Microsoft and five other companies have received fines totaling US$75K from South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), for running afoul of local data protection laws. The Commission fined Microsoft 16.4 million won (US$14,700) for failing to have protective measures on administrative accounts that led to the leak of over 119,000 email accounts, 144…
ADT Technician Sentenced for Hacking Home Security Footage
There’s an update to a previously reported case: A home security technician was sentenced today to 52 months in federal prison for repeatedly hacking into customers’ video feeds, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Prerak Shah. Telesforo Aviles, a 35-year-old former ADT employee, pleaded guilty to computer fraud in January. He was sentenced…
ASEAN companies still targeted by ALTDOS threat actors
In December of 2020, DataBreaches.net reported on a threat actor (or actors) calling themself “ALTDOS” who had attacked a Thai securities trading firm, Country Group Securities (CGSEC) . CGSEC wasn’t the only Thai entity they attacked, and within weeks, they had attacked MonoNext and 3BB, subsidiaries of Jasmine International. Angered by the entities’ response or lack of response to…
Taiwan Kadokawa notifies consumers while responding to ransomware attack
Taiwan Kadokawa Co, is part of the Kadokawa corporation group of companies. On June 3, they discovered they had been attacked. In a subsequent press release of June 4 and statement, they explained what appears to be a ransomware attack (machine translation): Taiwan Kadokawa Co., Ltd. (Taipei City, Chairman: Taketo Iwasaki, hereinafter referred to as…
Ransomware Struck Another Pipeline Firm—and 70GB of Data Leaked
Andy Greenberg reports: When ransomware hackers hit Colonial Pipeline last month and shut off the distribution of gas along much of the East Coast of the United States, the world woke up to the danger of digital disruption of the petrochemical pipeline industry. Now it appears another pipeline-focused business was also hit by a ransomware crew around the same time,…