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…
Category: Hack
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…
Emma Sleep Company admits checkout Magecart attack
Paul Kunert reports: Emma Sleep Company has confirmed to The Reg that it suffered a Magecart attack which enabled ne’er-do-wells to skim customers’ credit or debit card data from its website. Customers were informed of the breach by the mattress maker via email in the past week, with the business saying it was “subject to a cyber…
An Interview with AgainstTheWest
They are anonymous, but they are not Anonymous. Meet the individuals who are using their skills to take on the West’s enemies. Names can be misleading. When I first read about a group called “AgainstTheWest,” I assumed they were working against the west. But while threat actors from Russia, China, Belarus, and North Korea attack…