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London Borough of Hackney reprimanded following cyber-attack

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office: We have issued the London Borough of Hackey with a reprimand following a cyber-attack in 2020 that led to hackers gaining access to and encrypting 440,000 files, affecting at least 280,000 residents and other individuals including staff. In October 2020, hackers attacked the London Borough of Hackney (LBoH) systems –…

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Microsoft links Scattered Spider hackers to Qilin and RansomHub ransomware attacks

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports: Microsoft says the Scattered Spider cybercrime gang has added Qilin ransomware to its arsenal and is now using it in attacks. “In the second quarter of 2024, financially motivated threat actor Octo Tempest, our most closely tracked ransomware threat actor, added RansomHub and Qilin to its ransomware payloads in campaigns,” Microsoft said Monday. After…

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Cyberattack costs growing at UnitedHealth Group, could reach $2.45 billion for this year

Posted on July 16, 2024 by Dissent

Christopher Snowbeck reports: Second quarter earnings beat analyst expectations at UnitedHealth Group, even as the Minnetonka-based health care giant said it saw more expenses handling the fallout from a massive cyberattack earlier this year. The company now expects cyberattack costs could reach $2.45 billion for the year, including more direct expenses for financial support for…

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Brevard Alzheimer’s Foundation and Joe’s Club continue to leak sensitive and disturbing images

Posted on July 13, 2024July 13, 2024 by Dissent

CAUTION:  This post contains some images showing adults with bruises or injuries. The images may be upsetting or disturbing. In October 2023, DataBreaches was contacted by a moderator for BreachForums. He had come across an exposed database and seeing how sensitive it was, contacted this site to see if we could alert those responsible for…

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Meow Leaks: The Interview

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Dissent

Over on SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice writes: We are exclusively publishing the interview that we conducted with the Meow Leaks group and which they gave us in these last hours. We had known the Meow Leaks group as a group attributable, at least for the programming code used, to the Conti (v2) ransomware group….

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Insider Threat Research by Binghamton University: Are mass layoffs and data breaches connected?

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Dissent

Binghamton University press release by Anthony Borrelli: The WARN notice gets filed, and among the hundreds of workers who will get the proverbial pink slip, one spiteful ex-employee performs a hack that triggers a massive leak of confidential data ranging from bank account information to social security numbers. It sounds like the trappings of a plot out…

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