UY: Ministry of Transport and Public Works victim of ransomware attack Uruguay’s Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP) was hit by a ransomware attack on October 17. On November 9, MTOP reported that it was back to normal after the ransomware attack, adding that it had recovered critical information and restored the affected services….
Category: Hack
Unknown Hacker Makes Away With $5 million From Ankr Protocol
Jimmy Kelly reports: In a Tweet released by the popular DeFi Protocol Ankr, the protocol made it public that it had just suffered a cyber attack wherein the hacker having minted a thousand trillion of the reward-bearing token for BNB staked on the protocol (aBNBc) made away with about 20 trillion which he later converted to BNB and later…
New Zealand health insurer Accuro says it’s been hacked, can’t rule out customers’ data being accessed
NewsHub reports: The company said in a statement there was not yet evidence of personal health data being compromised but it could not be ruled out. “Our IT provider is working with their own forensic experts and Government agencies to understand the nature and extent of the impact. We have also notified the relevant regulatory authorities including…
The Pope’s website taken offline in suspected hacker attack
Anugraha Sundaravelu reports: Hackers have targeted the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church in an apparent cyberattack. The official Vatican website was taken offline on Wednesday following an apparent hacking attack, the Holy See said. ‘Technical investigations are ongoing due to abnormal attempts to access the site,’ Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said, without giving any…
LastPass’s August incident contributed to a new incident
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…
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. …