Peoples Community Health Clinic in Iowa has been notifying some patients as a result of an employee’s email account being compromised. As explained in their press release*, on March 22, 2021, PCHC became aware of suspicious activity related to an employee’s email account. An investigation revealed that between March 18, 2021 and March 22, 2021,…
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Facebook sues four Vietnamese nationals for hijacking accounts
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Social networking giant Facebook has filed two lawsuits today against two suspected criminal groups that abused its advertising platform for their own gains. The first lawsuit was filed against four Vietnamese nationals for hijacking user accounts and the second against a US company for running an e-commerce bait-and-switch scam. Read more on…
Russian Hackers Mounted Cyber Attack on German Banks, Bild Says
Patrick Donahue and Jake Rudnitsky report: A hacker group linked to the Russian state known as “Fancy Bear” conducted a cyber attack on critical German infrastructure and the country’s banking system in the past few days, Bild newspaper reported, citing unidentified Western intelligence sources. A spokesman for Germany’s BSI Federal Cyber Security Authority said the agency has…
Hackers use zero-day to mass-wipe My Book Live devices
Lawrence Abrams reports that preliminary reports attributing a mass-wipe to a CVE from 2018 were not quite the whole story. Western Digital had originally told BleepingComputer that the attacks were being conducted through a 2018 vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-18472, which was not fixed as the device has been out of support since 2015. It turns out that…
New charges filed against Capital One hacker, trial postponed to 2022
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US government has filed a superseding indictment against Paige A. Thompson, a former Amazon engineer accused of hacking Capital One and stealing the personal data of more than 100 million Americans. According to court documents filed earlier this month and obtained by The Record, the US Department of Justice has added seven new charges…
UK: Barrow computer hacker tapped into school network and brought down Labour website
Melissa Major reports: A computer hacker who brought down the Labour general election candidate’s website and tapped into a school network has been given a suspended sentence. Bradley Kai Hayden Niblock, 22, was caught after the Cyber and Digital Crime Unit followed a pattern of online offending last year. Niblock, of Hawcoat Lane, Barrow, admitted…