Catalin Cimpanu reports: On Monday, officials from Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su), a borough part of the Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area, said they are still recovering from a ransomware infection that took place last week, on July 24. The ransomware infection crippled the Borough’s government networks and has led to the IT staff shutting down a large swath…
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Alabama Baptists affected by International Missions Board breach
The Alabama Baptist reports: A data breach at the International Mission Board (IMB) may have exposed personal information of current and former employees, volunteers and applicants. The IMB began a “comprehensive response” immediately upon discovering the cyber security incident on April 11 and promptly notified law enforcement officials, according to a statement released to Baptist…
UK: Dixons Carphone data breach hit extra 9m customers
Wouldn’t you hate to be That Guy who has to tell the boss that they need to revise their breach estimate up from 1+ million to 10 million? Wale Azeez reports: Dixons Carphone has apologised to all of its customers after revealing that a 2017 data breach affected personal data held in an additional 8.8…
UK shipping provider Clarkson discloses 2017 hack and ransom demand
A breach disclosure notification issued today by Clarkson PLC is particularly notable for the fact that they were reportedly able to track down and recover a hacked copy of their data: Through the investigation and legal measures, Clarksons were then able to successfully trace and recover the copy of the data that was illegally copied…
Yale University notifying 119,000 that hackers stole their Social Security numbers and details in 2008-2009
Between April, 2008, and January, 2009, hackers accessed and exfiltrated data on 119,000 individual affiliated with the university. The hacked data included the individuals’ names, Social Security numbers, date of birth (in most cases), and e-mail addresses and physical addresses in some cases. Not knowing about the hack at the time, Yale did nothing. And…
Chile Cybersecurity Watch: Card data leaks, Santander investment, govt agency
Allan Brown reports: Chile’s banking watchdog Sbif reported there were two leaks of card details on Saturday. The leaks came just days after hackers published details of around 14,000 credit cards from local and international issuers. The first incident on Saturday involved details of 4,149 credit cards, which turned out to be the same as…