MyBroadband follows up on a story initially broken by ITWeb yesterday. They now report: The South African division of US-based consumer credit bureau TransUnion has suffered a ransomware attack. In a statement on Thursday, the company acknowledged that a third party had gained access to one of its servers through misuse of an authorised client’s credentials. “We…
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WA: Chelan Douglas Health District Warning Residents of 2021 Data Breach
Kyle Lamb reports: The Chelan Douglas Health District is warning the public of a data breach that may have led to the loss of identifiable personal and health information. The district said the hack occurred in early July of last year, with cybersecurity consultants finishing a review of the breach February 12th and the district…
Lawmakers Probe Early Release of Top RU Cybercrook
Brian Krebs reports: Aleksei Burkov, a cybercriminal who long operated two of Russia’s most exclusive underground hacking forums, was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities. The Russian government fought Burkov’s extradition to the U.S. for four years — even arresting and jailing an Israeli woman to force a prisoner swap. That effort failed: Burkov was…
Another Technology Management Resources client reports a data breach
PhySynergy has disclosed a vendor breach involving IberiaBank’s lockbox service provider, Technology Management Resources, that may have impacted some of its customers and/or patients. From their press release: HUNTSVILLE, Ala., March 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — PhySynergy, LLC (the “Company”) is notifying individuals of a service provider security incident that involved the personal information of some of its patients and/or…
KS: Labette Health discloses October, 2021 data security incident
Labette Health in Kansas has started notifying employees and patients of a data security incident. According to a statement on their website, an investigation determined that unauthorized individual(s) potentially accessed and acquired information from portions of their network between October 15, 2021 and October 24, 2021. It appears that it took them four months from…
Ubisoft says it experienced a ‘cyber security incident’, LAPSUS$ group claims credit for attack
Jay Peters reports: Ubisoft experienced a “cyber security incident” last week that temporarily disrupted some games, systems, and services, the company reported Thursday. Ubisoft hasn’t said who might be responsible, but on Friday evening, the group who purportedly hacked Nvidia took credit. Ubisoft said it believes that “at this time there is no evidence any player…