Lyle Adriano reports: A British Columbia-based real estate agency is the latest victim of a ransomware cyberattack – but the circumstances of the attack raise more questions than answers. Last week, the Conti ransomware group listed the ReMax Kelowna as one of its victims on its website. To prove it had instigated the attack, the…
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Romania’s biggest real estate portal suffers major data breach
Andrei Chirileasa reports: The largest real estate portal in Romania, Imobiliare.ro, has suffered a data breach that could potentially affect its entire client database, reports Website Planet quoted by Profit.ro. It remains unknown whether the company’s client information fell into nefarious hands, but the company’s bucket was found to be exposed, without password protection or encryption….
CD Projekt Red hacked, refuses to pay ransom, opts for transparency
Earlier today, video game developer CD Projekt Red announced on Twitter that it has been hacked and a ransom demand received. “We will not give in to the demands nor negotiate with the actor, being aware that this may eventually lead to the release of the compromised data,” they write, adding that while they are…
Hacker Blackmails Pirate IPTV Services, Threatens To Send User Data To Police
Andy Maxwell reports: During the past two days, a pair of UK-based IPTV suppliers – SapphireSecure.net and KS-Hosting.com – became victims in what appears to be a series of hacks carried out by the same individual [responsible for a series of hacks targeting pirate IPTV providers over the past couple of years]. Apparently connected by ownership,…
KeepChange Foils Bitcoin Theft but Loses User Data in Sunday Breach
Sebastian Sinclair reports: Bitcoin marketplace KeepChange says it has managed to limit the ramifications of a security breach on Sunday. According to a blog post on Monday, the exchange said several bitcoin withdrawal requests had been initiated from customer accounts to an address belonging to the attackers. However, one of the platform’s control subsystems halted the requests, resulting…
11th Circuit’s strict new rule for data breach standing will figure in Equifax appeal
Alison Frankel reports: Shiyang Huang is not a lawyer. Nor is he a professional objector who makes a living from demanding payments to drop filing vexatious objections to class action appeals. By his account, he’s just a pro se litigant from Topeka who doesn’t think federal courts should be called upon to adjudicate claims by…