Assad Jafri reports: Poloniex has officially identified the hacker responsible for stealing $120 million from the exchange on Nov. 10 and offered a $10 million white reward if the funds are returned by Nov. 25, according to on-chain data shared by blockchain security firm PeckShield. Justin Sun, Poloniex’s majority shareholder, sent blockchain messages on the Ethereum network to addresses involved…
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Canadian Government Announces Data Breach, Urges Public Service Employees to Take Action
Stacey Scott reports: The federal government has issued a warning to current and former public service employees, as well as members of the RCMP and Canadian Armed Forces, regarding a recent data breach that took place on October 19th. Officials have identified two companies, Brookfield Global Relocation Services (BGRS) and SIRVA Worldwide Relocation & Moving…
A Hacker Faked His Own Death–Then Claimed To Have Sold Marriott Customer Data To Russians, FBI Says
Thomas Brewster reports: A hacker told the FBI earlier this year that he sold access to the personal data of Marriott hotel customers on a Russian forum, according to a search warrant obtained by Forbes. He also hacked into a number of U.S. state death certificate registration agencies in an effort to fake his own demise,…
NoEscape gang continues to use DDoS to pressure reluctant victims to negotiate
Over on SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice reports that the NoEscape ransomware gang is threatening to release 1.5 TB of data from PruittHealth Network. De Felice was unable to obtain any statements or responses from either PruittHealth or the threat actors, but notes that the threat actors claim to have attacked Pruitt on November 13…
Was Yakima Valley Radiology the victim of a cyberattack? They’re not answering that.
On September 24, Karakurt threat actors added Yakima Valley Radiology PC to their leak site. Their listing claimed that they acquired 9.31 GB of files including “financial reports, client lists with contacts, list of patients for 15 years (212579 rows), a database of social security numbers (including staff, doctors) with 766000 rows.” Karakurt did not…
Australian Privacy Regulator Sues in MedLab Pathology Data Breach Case
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: Patrick Gunning from King & Wood Mallesons reports that, on November 2, 2023, the Australian Information Commissioner filed proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Australian Clinical Labs Limited seeking a civil penalty (i.e., a fine) in connection with the company’s response to a data breach that occurred in February…