DW reports: The German government confirmed on Wednesday that it had suffered a large cyberattack that infiltrated federal computer networks. Citing anonymous sources, German news agency dpa had earlier reported that the Russian hacking group APT28 had placed malware in a government network and infiltrated the Foreign and Defense Ministries. The sources said the malware could have…
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NIS America Hit By Security Breach, Personal Data Leaked
Neil Bolt reports: NIS America has announced that their online stores suffered a major security breach within the last week. This has led to the leaking of personal data for multiple new accounts to the hackers responsible. The RPG-centric company notified customers via email and social media. The publisher has now taken the store down to prevent…
FastHealth notifies patients of 2017 incident involving their data
In May, 2017, this site started reporting that a number of healthcare facilities had been impacted by a breach at their vendor, Tuscaloosa-based FastHealth. FastHealth provides website and operational tools and services, including online bill payment. According to FastHealth’s news release at the time, an unauthorized third party had altered code on its web server,…
North Korea hacking group is expanding operations, researchers say
Steve Ragan reports: A group of hackers from North Korea (DPRK), recently connected to the usage of an Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878), has expanded its operations in both scope and sophistication, FireEye says. With a tool-set that includes zero-day vulnerabilities, destructive malware, and lack of concern when it comes to breaking norms and exasperating…
Porsche Japan customers data leaked
The Japanese arm of German automaker Porsche says more than 28,000 email addresses have been leaked via a hack. Porsche Japan says information at risk includes 23,151 email addresses belonging to customers who asked for product brochures via the internet between 2000 and 2009. Its officials suspect their customers’ names, postal addresses, phone numbers and…
Understanding Data Breaches as National Security Threats
Susan Landau writes: For decades the theft of private individuals’ data has been treated as an annoyance. Activist state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission have pursued cases, but U.S. laws fail to treat theft of personal data as a serious crime in itself. The indictment detailing Russian activity during the 2016 presidential campaign…