Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The U.S. government announced on Wednesday that it had disrupted a botnet controlled by Russian government hackers before it could be used to launch cyberattacks. In a press release, the Department of Justice announced that it had copied and removed malware from thousands of infected network firewall devices, which were under the…
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Would Sea Mar Community Health even know about large patient data dumps if not for DataBreaches.net?
The chronology of Sea Mar Community Health Center’s responses to a massive data breach suggests that they may be first learning of data dumps because of notifications by DataBreaches.net or this site’s reporting of our discoveries. If true, what does that say about their security and incident response? A DataBreaches.net commentary. Since 2021, DataBreaches.net has…
APT10: These sneaky hackers hid inside their victims’ networks for nine months
Danny Palmer reports: A hacking and cyber espionage operation is going after victims around the world in a widespread campaign designed to snoop on targets and steal information. Identified victims of the cyber attacks include organisations in government, law, religious groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the pharmaceutical sector and telecommunications. Multiple countries have been targeted, including…
55,000 there, 190,000 there, 1.8 million there, and the breaches roll on…
Taylor Regional Hospital in Kentucky recently notified 190,209 patients of breach that they identified in January. An investigation determined that an unauthorized person had gained access to their network between November 2, 2021 and January 19, 2022, and obtained certain files from their systems containing patients’ names, and one or more of the following: address,…
Parker-Hannifin discloses breach in regulatory filing
Ciara Linnane reports: Parker Hannifin Corp. said Tuesday a third party breached its systems on March 14, and may have accessed data and personal information of its own employees. In a regulatory filing, the maker of technology for the aerospace and industrial sectors said it is working with law enforcement and cybersecurity experts to determine the extent…
Ledger users file a class-action lawsuit against Shopify over a data breach
Ali Raza reports: Shopify, a leading global eCommerce platform, faces a class-action lawsuit filed by users of the Ledger hardware wallet. The lawsuit stems from a major data breach that happened in 2020. The class-action lawsuit was filed at the US District Court of Delaware on April 1. The lawsuit states that Shopify failed to protect the…