Mark Wycislik-Wilson reports: Users of Trakt — a service for “scrobbling”, or tracking the movies and TV shows you watch in the likes of Plex and Kodi — have received emails from the company notifying them of a data breach that took place way back in 2014. Trakt says that although the security breach took…
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Bayside Covenant Church Provides Notice of Data Breach
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Feb. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — What Happened? In October of 2018, Bayside became aware of suspicious activity in certain employees’ email accounts. Bayside immediately began an investigation to confirm the nature and scope of this activity. Through the investigation, which included working with third party forensic investigators, we determined that the unauthorized actors accessed…
“Team Orangeworm” claims to be dumping CarePartners’ data from 2018 breach
In June, 2018, CarePartners, a home care service provider to Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) and an Ontario-based community health care agency, revealed that they had been breached. The following month, after being contacted by the hackers, CBC News provided more details and reported that there was an extortion demand made by the hackers….
TN: Pellissippi State Community College reveals data breach potentially affecting 222 students
DT staff reports: More than 200 current and former students of Pellissippi State Community College could be in danger of identity theft because an unauthorized user had access to their personal information, the school revealed Monday. Pellissippi State said it had notified 222 people whose information might have be been compromised through an email account…
Two hacker groups responsible for 60 percent of all publicly reported hacks
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two hacker groups are behind 60% of all publicly reported cryptocurrency exchange hacks and are believed to have stolen around $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency, according to a report published last week by blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. “On average, the hacks we traced from the two prominent hacking groups stole $90 million…
Russian Darknet Forum Selling Access to U.S. News Sites
M.H.n reports: Sixgill, an Israeli threat intelligence company, recently revealed that a Russian-language darknet forum has been selling access to the content management systems of a variety of news sites. According to the company, the illicit trade has been going on since October 2018. One bundle that the darknet website offered contained logins to 1,425…