Bill Toulas reports: A ransomware attack on the “Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore” MMORPG last Friday destroyed 17,000 player accounts, deleting their in-game items and progress in the game. Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore is a free-to-play old-school MMORPG developed by indie game publisher ‘Gellyberry Studios.’ The title is available on Steam as an ‘Early Access’ release, meaning it…
Category: Business Sector
Henry Schein re-encrypted by BlackCat again
On October 15, Henry Schein, Inc. disclosed a breach: On Saturday, October 14, Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) determined that a portion of its manufacturing and distribution businesses experienced a cybersecurity incident. Henry Schein promptly took precautionary action, including taking certain systems offline and other steps intended to contain the incident, which has led to temporary disruption of…
Europe’s grid is under a cyberattack deluge, industry warns
Politico reports: Thousands of cyberattacks have inundated Europe’s energy grid since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and a top industry leader is calling for help as officials and researchers fret that not nearly enough is being done. “The crooks are becoming better by the day, so we need to become better by the day,” Leonhard Birnbaum,…
IBM, Johnson & Johnson Hit With Second Health Data Breach Suit
Tonya Riley reports: IBM Corp. and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. face a Florida man’s proposed class action over an August data breach that potentially exposed the personal health information of more than a half-million people. Plaintiff Jarvis Bryant Jenkins alleged the companies were negligent regarding the safety of his sensitive health records,…
Enterprise software provider Tmax leaks 2TB of data
Jurgita Lapienytė reports: A Korean IT company developing and selling enterprise software has leaked over 50 million sensitive records. The 2 TB-strong Kibana dashboard has been exposed for over two years. Cybernews researchers discovered it back in January 2023, noting the set of data was first spotted in June 2021. Our team attributed the dashboard…
Za: Hackers demand $60m from TransUnion and Experian, claiming data theft
Sabelo Skiti reports: Two of the country’s largest consumer credit reporting agencies, TransUnion and Experian, may have been hit by a fresh data hack, potentially exposing the financial and personal data of South Africans to risk. The hackers, the Brazil-based N4ughtySecTU Group, which has hacked TransUnion before, had again bypassed the organisation’s firewalls and security…