Lipka Deka reports: Crypto exchange firm Bitmart suffered a large-scale hack incurring a total loss of approximately $200 million. The news was first brought to the attention by security analytics entity Pecksheild Inc who raised an alarm of the reported breach on Saturday night. Pechsheild sent out the tweet detailing the suspicious amount of outflows of a…
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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?
Brian Krebs reports: Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. In this post we’ll look at…
Suspected Chinese hackers breach more US defense and tech firms
Sean Lyngaas of CNN reports: A suspected Chinese hacking campaign has breached four more US defense and technology companies in the last month, and hundreds more US organizations are running the type of vulnerable software that the attackers have exploited, according to research shared with CNN. The apparent espionage activity, which the National Security Agency…
CarePartners agrees to settle proposed cyberattack class action for up to $3.4 million, but don’t party just yet
Bernise Carolino reports that there is a settlement in a lawsuit against CarePartners in Canada. The proposed class-action lawsuit stemmed from a breach in 2018 that DataBreaches.net investigated and covered on this site. The firms of Howie, Sacks & Henry LLP (HSH), Waddell Phillips PC and Schneider Law Firm represented the plaintiffs, Arthur Redublo and…
SUNY Geneseo student to face hacker in court two years after explicit photos were leaked
Carla Rogner reports: Natalie Claus is looking forward to graduating from SUNY Geneseo in December, but first she is focusing on another date on her calendar. On Wednesday, Claus will face a stranger in court, David Mondore, who hacked her snapchat account in December 2019 and sent an explicit photo saved in her private folder to…
IL: Evanston Township High School Defrauded Of $48,570 In Hack That Exposed 1,139 Identities
Jonah Meadows reports: Evanston Township High School officials got scammed out of more than $48,000 during a monthslong data breach that also exposed the personal information of more than 1,100 Illinois residents, Patch has learned. The fraudulent payment was reported to Evanston police, and the data breach was disclosed to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office,…