PARAMUS, N.J., March 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — DeCotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP (“DFCG”) is providing notice of a recent incident that may affect the security of information for current or former clients and other individuals who were either directly or indirectly involved as a party involved in a DFCG legal matter. The confidentiality, privacy, and security…
Category: Hack
MangaDex website taken offline following cyber-attack, data breach
The Daily Swig reports: A website that hosts free manga comics has been taken offline after malicious hackers allegedly gained access to a database that housed user data. The MangaDex site was taken down for maintenance last week (March 20) after an unknown actor gained access to an administrator account. The site’s maintainers said the attacker was…
Eyemart Express notifies patients of breach
Eyemart Express posted a notice of breach in local media: Farmers Branch, Texas, March 21, 2021 — Eyemart Express, LLC has discovered it was targeted by a cyber attack that affected certain Eyemart Express email accounts. Importantly, the attack did not affect Eyemart Express’ internal systems that store medical or billing records. Once the incident…
Federal Police arrest hacker suspected of the largest data leak in Brazil
Arkady Petrov reports: The man suspected of being responsible for the largest data leak in Brazil was arrested this Friday, March 19th, in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, during Operation Deepwater, of the Federal Police (PF). The action investigates the obtaining, disclosure and commercialization of data of Brazilians, including several authorities. The investigations found that, last January,…
WA: Douglas County targeted as part of international cyber attack
Tony Buhr reports: Douglas County was one of thousands of servers targeted in a cyberattack by a group out of China. It was an international attack that occurred March 2 and exploited a weakness in Microsoft servers, said Brad Hudson, Douglas County management information systems manager. The attack required Hudson to spend Friday through Sunday…
NZ: Lumino dental firm email hack: Patient information accessed
Nicholas Pointon reports: A dental company with 120 practices nationwide is confident a data breach at a Wellington surgery was an isolated incident. Wellington Oral Surgery, which is owned by Lumino, discovered on Monday a staff member’s email account had been hacked and patients’ personal information had been accessed. The company sent out a notice…