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Council of Granada database was sold by hacker. Should anyone be concerned?

Posted on March 7, 2023September 17, 2024 by chum1ng0

The Council of Granada is a public entity providing direct services to citizens as well as technical, economic, and technological support to the city councils of the municipalities of the province of Granada, Spain. On December 29, 2022, the group known as “GhostSec” listed a Granada Council database at dipgra.es for sale, claiming they had…

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ANOTHER Acer Data Breach? Hacker Claims to Sell 160GB Trove of Stolen Data

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Dissent

Waqas reports: Acer Inc., a major global technology company based in Taiwan, is facing a potential data breach from a hacker going by the alias “Kernelware.” The hacker is claiming responsibility for a major data breach at Acer Inc., a leading multinational company based in Taiwan that designs and sells hardware and electronics products. According to…

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Ie: Data Protection Commission publishes 2022 Annual Report

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Dissent

Commissioner for Data Protection, Helen Dixon, has today launched the Irish Data Protection Commission’s Annual Report for 2022. Highlights of the 2022 Annual report include: The DPC concluded 17 Large-Scale inquiries, with administrative fines in excess of €1billion and multiple reprimands and compliance orders imposed. Additionally, as at 31 December 2022, 4 DPC draft decisions…

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Medusa claims responsibility for Minneapolis Public Schools’ “encryption event,” provides proof of how much data they accessed

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Dissent

There’s another update to the “encryption  event” first disclosed by Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) in February. As of their most recent last update, MPS had stated that they had been able to restore systems and no ransom had been paid. At that time, DataBreaches had not found any gang claiming responsibility for the breach or…

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Where are the women in cyber security? On the dark side, study suggests

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Dissent

Brandon Vigliarolo reports: If you can’t join them, then you may as well try to beat them – at least if you’re a talented security engineer looking for a job and you happen to be a woman. As we’ve noted before, the infosec world moves at a glacial pace toward gender equity. It appears that’s…

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Medicare under attack: Healthcare data breaches increase fraud risks

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Dissent

Melissa D. Berry reports: Stealing Medicare beneficiary identification numbers has become the latest goal for cybercriminals who see this data as even more valuable than stolen credit cards. A South Florida man pled guilty in federal court in late-January to “conspiring to buy and sell more than 2.6 million Medicare beneficiary identification numbers” and other…

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