Selena Ross reports: Quebec’s Bibliotheque Nationale is shutting down, and going partly offline, until next Tuesday because it uses the same technology company that served the daycare booking website that had its data stolen earlier this week. “Following the attack on the government site La Place 0-5 earlier this week, the Government Cyber Defense Center…
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De: Hackers attack Ehrmann, demand millions in ransom
Ehrmann SE is a dairy headquartered in Germany. It has production facilitites in Russia and Brazil, as well as sales offices in Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Poland, Finland and China. The multinational firm has reportedly been hit by hackers. All we really know so far, as reported yesterday by Jens Noll and Sabrina Karrer,…
Noblr Reciprocal Exchange to notify 97,633 consumers of breach involving insurance quote platform
The following incident sounds almost identical to the incident reported by American Family Insurance, but this report is from Noblr Reciprocal Exchange (Noblr). As with the one from American Family Insurance, if you receive a letter next week from Noblr, read it. A letter signed by Jennifer Lawrence, their Chief Legal Officer, explains, but begins…
American Family Insurance to notify 283,734 of breach linked to unemployment benefits fraud
American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. (American Family) will be sending out letters on or about May 14 to people who may have — or may not have — sought an auto insurance quote from the firm using the firm’s web site. If you get a letter from them, read it carefully. A letter signed…
Fr: Eco-friendly sneaker brand Veja hacked
Damien Licata Caruso reports that Veja, a French footwear and accessories brand known for its eco-friendly sneakers, was hacked on April 26. The customer database with email addresses of customers was reportedly stolen. Machine translation: There is no banking data in the wild because we don’t store it and stolen passwords are protected by encryption,”…
One of country’s largest pipelines shuts down to contain cybersecurity breach
Update: The Washington Post, who broke the story, updated their coverage to indicate that the threat actors are DarkSide. DataBreaches.net, who had recently interviewed DarkSide, reached out to ask them for a comment about the Colonial Pipeline report. They politely responded “Hello, no comments,” but then immediately sent another reply explaining, “At the time of…