Dan Goodin reports: The US Justice Department has become the latest federal agency to say its network was breached in a long and wide-ranging hack campaign that’s believed to have been backed by the Russian government. In a terse statement issued Wednesday, Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi said that the breach wasn’t discovered until December 24, which…
Category: Hack
Ca: Thousands of UGDSB students back on email following breach last week
Joanne Shuttleworth reports: GUELPH – Upper Grand District School Board (UGDSB) students can once again access their board email accounts. Last week, the school board suspended access to student Gmail accounts following a breach that resulted in “inappropriate” emails being sent to thousands of students. Read more on Wellington Advertiser.
Joint Statement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the National Security Agency (NSA)
January 5 2021 — On behalf of President Trump, the National Security Council staff has stood up a task force construct known as the Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG), composed of the FBI, CISA, and ODNI with support from NSA, to coordinate the investigation and remediation of this significant cyber incident involving federal government networks….
Aurora Cannabis breach exposes personal data of former, current workers
Solomon Israel reports: A data breach at Aurora Cannabis has exposed the personal information of an unknown number of the Canadian company’s current and former employees, Marijuana Business Daily has learned. An email sent to a victim of the data breach cites a Dec. 25 “cybersecurity incident during which unauthorized parties accessed data in (Microsoft cloud…
Ho Mobile offers to replace 2.5m SIM cards after hackers snag user details
Oisin Sweeney reports a follow-up to a previously noted Ho Mobile breach: On Monday (January 4th) the Vodafone owned company confirmed a massive data breach and is now taking the unprecedented step of offering to replace the SIM cards of all 2.5 million affected customers. Read more on EuroWeekly.
In: 10 crore Indians’ card data selling on Dark Web: Researcher
Helpful note: 10 crore = 100 million. Economic Times Tech reports: Independent cybersecurity researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia claimed on Sunday that data of nearly 10 crore credit and debit card holders in the country is being sold for an undisclosed amount on the Dark Web. According to Rajaharia, the massive data dump on the Dark Web…