NYS Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement: New York Attorney General Letitia James secured $200,000 from the law firm, Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach LLP (HPMB) for failing to protect New Yorkers’ personal and healthcare data. HPMB’s poor data security measures made it vulnerable to a 2021 data breach that compromised the private information of approximately…
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Twitter takes legal action after source code leaked online
Dan Milmo reports: Twitter has revealed some of its source code has been released online and the social media platform owned by Elon Musk is taking legal action to identify the leaker. According to a court filing made on Friday, Twitter is demanding that GitHub, a code-sharing service, identifies who released on the platform parts…
AU: Crown Resorts acknowledges getting ransom demand over GoAnywhere breach
Reuters reports: Australia’s biggest casino operator Crown Resorts said on Monday it was investigating a data breach at its third-party file transfer service, GoAnywhere, in which hackers obtained a limited number of Crown’s files. “We were recently contacted by a ransomware group who claimed they have illegally obtained a limited number of Crown files,” a…
Cyber breach affects eastern NC postal service
Claire Curry reports from North Carolina: Some United States Postal Service workers in the eastern North Carolina and Jacksonville area are missing paychecks due to a cyber attack. The mail service is conducting an investigation, but employees are unhappy with the outcome so far, they said. Larisa Covington, from Jacksonville, said in February she was…
Hackers Steal $500,000 Worth of Tokens from Arbitrum Airdrop
Blockchain News reports: Hackers have managed to steal $500,000 worth of tokens from layer-2 scaling solution Arbitrum’s March 23 airdrop. The theft was carried out through the use of vanity addresses, customized cryptocurrency addresses that contain specific words or phrases chosen by the user to make them more personal and identifiable. While vanity addresses offer…
Fortra told breached companies their data was safe
Zack Whittaker and Carly Page report: Software maker Fortra told its corporate customers that their data was safe — even when it wasn’t — following a ransomware attack on its systems, TechCrunch has learned. … TechCrunch has heard from two victim organizations that only learned that data had been exfiltrated from their GoAnywhere systems after…