That feeling when you are told your child is some kind of evil genius/master criminal who has been sabotaging the school district’s network for months…. Jeroslyn Johnson reports: A mom recently went viral on TikTok after finally revealing all the trouble her 11-year-old son has been in due to his amazing tech skills. TikTok user @VictoriaPrettyMuch took to TikTok…
Category: Hack
HPE says hackers breached Aruba Central using stolen access key
Lawrence Abrams reports: HPE has disclosed that data repositories for their Aruba Central network monitoring platform were compromised, allowing a threat actor to access collected data about monitored devices and their locations. Aruba Central is a cloud networking solution that allows administrators to manage large networks and components from a single dashboard. Read more on…
Robinhood Security Breach Exposes Data on Millions of Users
Annie Massa reports: Robinhood Markets Inc. said personal information of about 7 million people — or roughly a third of its customers — was compromised in a data breach last week and that the culprit demanded payment. The intruder obtained email addresses of about 5 million people as well as full names for a separate group…
China says a foreign spy agency hacked its airlines, stole passenger records
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Chinese officials said last week that a foreign intelligence agency hacked several of its airlines in 2020 and stole passenger travel records. The hacking campaign was disclosed last week by officials from the Ministry of State Security, China’s civilian intelligence, security, and secret police agency. Read more on The Record.
Technology vendor, mental health services provider, and pain management clinic all report breaches involving protected health information
QRS On August 26, healthcare technology services company QRS, Inc. (“QRS”) discovered that an attacker had compromised a patient portal and exfiltrated some files from that client’s server. The compromise had been detected within three days of the attack. The information the threat actor may have accessed or acquired may have included, depending on the…
Black Shadow hackers leak medical records of 290,000 Israeli patients
The Times of Israel reports: In its second major leak in a day, the Black Shadow hacking group on Tuesday night uploaded what it said was the full database of personal information from Israel’s Machon Mor medical institute, including medical records of some 290,000 patients. The directory reportedly includes information on patients’ blood tests, treatments,…