Kevin Beaumont writes: Capita have finally admitted a data breach, but still do not think they need to disclose key details of the incident to customers, regulators, impacted parties and investors. So in this piece we shall dig into the details using open source intelligence, and prove Capita was penetrated by Black Basta ransomware group using…
Category: Hack
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Cementos Bío-Bío S.A attacked by BlackByte Cementos Bio-Bio S.A, a Chilean cement company, was added to BlackBye’s leaks site on April 9. DataBreaches found no notice of any incident on the main cbb.cl website, but the cbbexpress.cl customer portal had a notice about interruptions: “At this time we are having intermittencies with our services. If…
Dutch hacking suspects to be in court April 20; Dutch police try to warn others to “stop cybercrime”
There’s been a lot of speculation following the arrest of Conor Fitzpatrick (aka “Pompompurin”) once it began to really sink in for some people that law enforcement has both the RaidForums BreachForums databases. One development that has contributed to the anxiety some people may be feeling is that the Dutch police have sent out thousands…
Fi: Hacked therapy centre’s ex-CEO gets 3-month suspended sentence
YLE reports: Helsinki District Court handed a three-month suspended sentence to the former CEO of a psychotherapy firm targeted in a major data breach. The court found the ex-CEO of Vastaamo, Ville Tapio, guilty of a data protection crime because he did not fulfil General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, in terms of the pseudonymisation and…
Real estate firm OrangeTee & Tie fined for data breach involving 250,000 customers and employees
CNA reports a follow-up to an attack by ALTDOS that was previously reported by DataBreaches: Real estate agency OrangeTee & Tie has been fined S$37,000 by Singapore’s privacy watchdog after the personal data of more than 250,000 customers and employees was compromised. Names, bank account numbers, property transaction amounts, as well as identity card numbers were…
Kodi Confirms Data Breach: 400K User Records and Private Messages Stolen
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: Open source media player software provider Kodi has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole the company’s MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages. What’s more, the unknown threat actors attempted to sell the data dump comprising 400,635 Kodi users on the now-defunct BreachForums cybercrime marketplace. Read more at The Hacker News.