Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two members of the Carbanak (Cobalt) cybercrime group were sentenced today in a Kazakhstan court to eight years in prison for stealing from Kazakhstan banks. The sentencing was announced today by the Almaty city prosecutor’s office. The two hackers, whose names were not released, were found guilty of hacking into the IT systems of several Kazakh…
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NY: The M.T.A. Is Breached by Hackers as Cyberattacks Surge
Christina Goldbaum and William K. Rashbaum report: A hacking group believed to have links to the Chinese government penetrated the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s computer systems in April, exposing vulnerabilities in a vast transportation network that carries millions of people every day, according to an M.T.A. document that outlined the breach. Read more on The New…
20/20 Eye Care Network and Hearing Care Network notify 3,253,822 health plan members of breach that deleted contents of AWS buckets
20/20 Eye Care Network, Inc. is a managed vision care company in Florida that offers administrative services to health plans. 20/20 Hearing Care Network expands those services into hearing care. On May 28, 20/20’s Chief Compliance Officer notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office of an incident in which their Amazon AWS S3 buckets were accessed…
Russian hacker Pavel Sitnikov arrested for sharing malware source code
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Russian authorities have detained earlier this month a popular figure on the Russian hacking scene on charges of distributing malicious software via his Telegram channel. Pavel Sitnikov, known primarily for operating the now-suspended @Flatl1ne Twitter account and the Freedom F0x Telegram channel, was raided by law enforcement officials on May 20 at…
Hoboken Radiology reveals breach of imaging server that began in 2019
Hoboken Radiology LLC in New Jersey issued a press release yesterday about an incident that began in June, 2019. The full text of the release is below the separator. DataBreaches.net has sent an inquiry to the practice asking them who informed them in November — was it law enforcement, a vendor, a researcher, or their…
Russia’s FSB reports ‘unprecedented’ hacking campaign aimed at government agencies
Reuters reports: Foreign hackers compromised Russian federal agencies in a digital espionage campaign that Russian officials described as unprecedented in scope and sophistication. The little-noticed report – published this month by Russia’s FSB security service and Rostelecom-Solar, the cybersecurity arm of telecoms company Rostelecom (RTKM.MM) – provides an unusually detailed look at a purportedly state-backed cyber spying…