Brian Krebs reports: Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy practice and thousands of its patients. In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted…
Category: Hack
We seldom see breach reports from Nebraska, so here are two.
When DataBreaches compiles statistics on health data breaches for Protenus’s annual Breach Barometer, Nebraska generally has fewer than 10 breaches per year. Seeing two reports in one brief period is a bit unusual. This week, DataBreaches found that West Central District Health Department (WCDHD) had disclosed some kind of hacking incident that occurred between May…
AlphV files an SEC complaint against MeridianLink for not disclosing a breach to the SEC (2)
Earlier today, AlphV added MeridianLink to their leak site. MeridianLink (MLNK) is the provider of a loan origination system and digital lending platform for financial institutions. AlphV’s listing has been temporarily removed to be updated, but DataBreaches has learned some additional details from someone involved in the attack. The attack was last Tuesday, November 7….
Data security breach at Beaverton School District
KGW reports: The Beaverton School District has been hit by a cybersecurity breach that may have compromised student passwords, the district announced in a message posted to its website and sent to parents Tuesday evening. Student passwords to email accounts, Google documents, Canva and other platforms all may have been compromised. The district said it…
Gang says ICBC paid ransom over hack that disrupted US Treasury market, ‘deal closed’
James Pearson reports: China’s biggest lender, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, paid a ransom after it was hacked last week, a Lockbit ransomware gang representative said on Monday in a statement which Reuters was unable to independently verify. ICBC, whose U.S. arm was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted trades in the…
Denmark Hit With Largest Cyberattack on Record
Chris Riotta reports: Hackers potentially linked to the Russian GRU Main Intelligence Directorate carried out a series of highly coordinated cyberattacks targeting Danish critical infrastructure in the nation’s largest cyber incident on record, according to a new report. SektorCERT, a nonprofit cybersecurity center for critical sectors in Denmark, reported that attackers gained access to the…