There’s an update to the LastPass security incident they disclosed in August. LastPass had released its findings from that incident in a September update, posted on their site. But now there’s another a new disclosure involving an incident facilitated by the August incident. LastPass’s CEO, Karim Toubba, writes: We recently detected unusual activity within a third-party…
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Connexin Software notifies parents of 2.2 million pediatric patients of hack
Connexin Software, a business associate to numerous pediatric practices, recently notified HHS that it experienced a breach that affected 2,216,365 patients. One thing DataBreaches noted with interest in their substitute notice below is their statement that an unauthorized individual was able to access an offline set of patient data used for data conversion and troubleshooting. …
GA: Federal magistrate judge recommends dismissing hacking case against Vikas Singla
In June 2021, DataBreaches reported that Vikas Singla had been indicted on charges relating to a 2018 cyberattack on Gwinnett Medical Center. At the time of the alleged attack, Singla was the chief operating officer of a metro-Atlanta network security company. He was charged with 18 counts of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act…
Russian Hackers Target Dutch LNG Terminal
Alex Kimani reports: Russian hackers have been doing “exploratory research” into the systems of the Dutch LNG terminals, trying to find ways into the systems, American cyber security company Dragos has reported. According to Dragos’ Casey Brooks, hacker groups Xenotime and Kamacite have been poking at the digital systems of Gasunie’s LNG terminal in Eemshaven in Rotterdam. The FBI has…
Iran blames Israel for Fars News Agency hack
The Jewish News Syndicate reports: Iran has blamed foreign countries, including Israel, for a cyber attack on its semi-official Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, AFP reported on Saturday. Fars said in a statement posted to Telegram that its website was disrupted on Friday by a “complex hacking and cyberattack operation, and…
Massive Twitter data breach was far worse than reported, reveal security researchers
Ben Lovejoy reports: A massive Twitter data breach last year, exposing more than five million phone numbers and email addresses, was worse than initially reported. We’ve been shown evidence that the same security vulnerability was exploited by multiple bad actors, and the hacked data has been offered for sale on the dark web by several sources. It had previously been…