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France issues press statement about arrest of ShinyHunters members

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Dissent

French version. The English version is below. It’s interesting to note that IntelBroker was described as a British national who was arrested in France in February, 2025 and detained in pre-trial detention.

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From $5,000 to $800,000: Days Apart, OCR Security Settlements Show Puzzling Math

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Dissent

More great reporting and analysis by Therese Defino of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA): A single incident that may have started as a personal vendetta or an extortion threat seven years ago has cost a Florida health care system $800,000, and comes on the heels of an unrelated breach suffered by a different hospital…

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Why Dumping Sensitive Data on Network Shares is a Liability

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Dissent

Kathryn M. Rattigan and Jim Merrifield of Robinson + Cole LLP write: Are you storing sensitive data on a shared network drive? If so, your organization could be at serious risk of a data breach or privacy lawsuit. Shared drives, like the common “S:\ drive,” are often used to store documents, spreadsheets, customer information, financial…

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Iran-Linked Threat Actors Leak Visitors and Athletes’ Data from Saudi Games

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Dissent

Resecurity reports: Today (June 22, 2025) — the threat actors associated with the “Cyber Fattah” movement leaked thousands of records containing information about visitors and athletes from past Saudi Games, one of the major sports events in the Kingdom. The stolen data has been leaked in the form of SQL dumps – the actors gained unauthorized access to phpMyAdmin…

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People’s Republic of China cyber threat activity: Cyber Threat Bulletin

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Dissent

From the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security: The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) and the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are warning Canadians of the threat posed by People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actor tracked in industry reporting as Salt Typhoon. The Cyber Centre previously joined our partners…

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A state forensics lab was leaking its files. Getting it locked down involved a number of people.

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Dissent

Remember the old meme about how many <whatever your profession was> does it take to change a lightbulb?  This week felt like, “How many people does it take to get very sensitive data locked down?” But there was nothing funny about it. Spoiler alert: the answer for this week was:  2 researchers, 1 journalist, 1…

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