Mikael Thalen reports: The notorious imageboard 4chan is currently inaccessible after hackers appear to have leaked internal data from the website. In a post on Monday evening to the rival imageboard soyjack.party, an anonymous user claimed that a hacker was able to leak website code and the personal information of staff after being in 4chan’s…
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The art of restraint: why not every system should be owned
Jesse William McGraw writes: Greetings, reader! I want to talk about my former life as a blackhat hacker because it never makes any sense. Many of my rampant hacking campaigns focused on breaking into big servers across several industries but not on seizing the networks by the throat and forcing them to their knees. I…
SK.com allegedly hacked by Qilin
SK Inc. invests heavily in the U.S. It claims to be investing $50 billion in U.S. businesses, with investment in electric vehicle batteries, life sciences, technology solutions, semiconductors, and sustainable energy. The firm has a presence in more than 20 states at this time. On April 10, Qilin added SK.com to its dark web leak…
Physicians’ billing and revenue management firm hit by LockBit
DataBreaches should no longer be surprised to see threat actors claim to have hundreds of GB of files from medical entities, but it’s still concerning that entities can have so much data accessed and exfiltrated and yet not detect the attack. For today’s example, we point to Physicians Medical Billing, which was added to LockBit3.0’s…
HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles HIPAA Security Rule Investigation; Northeast Radiology agrees to corrective action plan and $350,000 monetary penalty
Over the past few years, DataBreaches has reported on a breach involving Northeast Radiology and its business associate, Alliance Healthcare Services. In March 2020, Northeast Radiology revealed its patient data was involved in a breach Alliance notified them about in January, 2020. TechCrunch had contacted Northeast Radiology about its unpatched PACS servers in 2019, but…
Germany suspects Russian cyber attack on research group
Richard Connor with dpa reports: Intelligence officials in Germany on Tuesday said they were probing a suspected Russian online attack on the German Association for East European Studies (DGO). The research group, specializing in foreign policy and international relations, is among several operating in Germany that Moscow has deemed “undesirable.” What the intelligence agencies said Both Germany’s…