BBC reports: Members of a Devon district council suffered a significant data breach when more than half had passwords made available online to other councillors. Thirty-seven of 60 East Devon District Council members were affected by the breach at the start of November, a full council meeting has heard. Swift action was taken to rectify…
Category: Hack
Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds’ dominance against it
Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing have a somewhat mind-boggling update to the SolarWinds hack – a hack that will be remembered as one of the biggest and most concerning hacks of 2020. And it’s only likely to get worse for SolarWinds, whose stock already dropped significantly. We know that companies can recover from breaches and…
NY: Great Neck Yeshiva HS Site Hacked, Anti-Semitic Propaganda Posted
Daniel Hampton reports: The website for a yeshiva high school in Great Neck was down Monday evening following an apparent hack in which anti-Semitic propaganda and racial slurs were reportedly published. Patch confirmed that around 5 p.m., the website for North Shore Hebrew Academy showed the site was “under construction.” Read more on Patch.
Chinese hackers suspected of attacking government agencies in Mongolia
From SecurityLab.ru: A Chinese cybercriminal APT group is suspected of hacking into the network of a Mongolian software company and hacking into a chat application used by hundreds of Mongolian government agencies. According to experts from ESET, the attack took place in June this year. Hackers attacked an application called Able Desktop, developed by local company Able Software. The…
U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
Updates: 1. This story is growing, and Reuters has now updated its reporting. 2. Kim Zetter obtained a report from Microsoft that she posted on Twitter in a thread. MSFT offers instructions on detecting and removing the threat, here. 3. FireEye has also updated their research report, here: ” Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply…
Brooklyn Defender Services Identifies and Addresses Data Security Incident
December 10 – Today, Brooklyn Defender Services, a public defender organization representing clients in criminal, immigration, and family proceedings, announced that it has identified and addressed a data security incident. Brooklyn Defender Services recently discovered that an unauthorized person gained access to some of Brooklyn Defender Services’ employees’ email accounts. On September 13, 2020, Brooklyn Defender…