Corin Faife reports: As the Russian invasion of Ukraine moves into its third week, unconventional actors continue to target Russian state-backed businesses with a string of hacks and data leaks — the latest apparently referencing pro-hacktivism comments made by Hillary Clinton. The targeted organization is Transneft, the Russian state-controlled oil pipeline giant. On Thursday, leak hosting website…
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Hackers hit Hood. Dairy shut down milk production this week after ‘cyber security event’
Anissa Gardizy reports: It’s not just passwords, credit card data, or personal records. Now, it appears the hackers have come for our milk and Hoodsies. H.P. Hood Dairy said Friday that it was the target of a “cyber security event,” that forced it to temporarily shut its 13 dairy plants around the country this week….
And as the work week draws to a close… (updated)
And as this work week drew to a close, we also learned about these breaches involving patient data that were reported to HHS earlier this month: Dialyze Direct, LLC in New Jersey notified HHS that 14,203 patients were impacted by an incident they coded as a hacking/IT incident involving email. There is no statement on…
Health insurance: Data of more than 500,000 people stolen in France
Hannah Thompson reports: The health data of more than half a million people in France have been stolen from insurance body l’Assurance maladie after the accounts of healthcare staff were hacked. The 19 accounts, mainly belonging to pharmacists, were hacked after their email addresses were compromised. Data stolen include the names, surnames, date of birth,…
TransUnion hackers demand R224-million ransom — threaten to leak Absa, FNB, Standard Bank data
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…
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…