AP reports: The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. But for others among what could be hundreds of victims from industry…
Category: Government Sector
State governments among victims of MoveIT Transfer breach
Alexander Culafi reports: Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri state governments are among a growing list of organizations attacked via a critical flaw in Progress Software’s MoveIT Transfer product. Progress Software on May 31 detailed an SQL injection bug in its managed file transfer (MFT) software MoveIt Transfer. Progress urged customers to immediately apply mitigations for the…
City of Augusta, GA data theft “one of the largest government data thefts in recent years in U.S.” — SuspectFile
Marco A. De Felice of SuspectFile writes: This article will serve to retrace, documenting them, the various steps that led us to have an exchange of numerous emails with the BlackByte ransomware group. We will tell, through a series of data, what damage the computer attack and the consequent theft of documents caused to the…
Franklin, Tennessee suffered a cyberattack in March. Do employees know their information was involved?
Franklin, Tennessee was the victim of a cyberattack in March. Because they have not issued any public statements or responded to inquiries as to whether they have notified those whose personal information was accessed or acquired, DataBreaches is providing this report. In the Beginning During a recent chat with the Trigona ransomware group about an…
Website leak exposes sensitive data of 85 million Turkish residents: report
Medya News reports: Sensitive personal data of Turkish citizens and residents of Turkey has been compromised, according to the Free Web Turkey, a platform dedicated to combating internet censorship in the country. On Friday, the platform exposed the existence of a website called Sorgu Paneli, which allows unrestricted access to personal data such as identification numbers,…
Switzerland fears government data stolen in cyberattack by PLAY threat actors
AFP reports: Switzerland said Thursday that government operational data might have been stolen in a cyberattack on the technology firm that provides software for several departments. “Xplain, a Swiss provider of government software, has been the victim of a ransomware attack. After the stolen data had been encrypted and the company blackmailed, the attackers posted some of…