The following press release from the NYS Attorney General’s Office relates to an incident previously noted on DataBreaches.net. The Assurance of Discontinuance provides details on the breach not previously known to this site and serves as a reminder of the need to timely update and patch. NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James…
Category: Hack
Hackers give Jeffco Public Schools an extension on their deadline to respond; email parents about the breach (1)
On November 2, DataBreaches reported that the same threat actors that had hacked and exfiltrated data from Clark County School District in Las Vegas had also hit Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado. In communications shared with DataBreaches, “SingularityMD” as the hackers call themselves gave the district until today at 5 pm today to pay them…
Jeffco Public Schools hit by the same threat actors that hit Clark County School District — and via the same way
How many school districts have to get massively hacked by the same method before the U.S. Department of Education, CISA, and states start really pressuring public school districts to address well-known vulnerabilities that are being exploited? Maybe that shouldn’t be a rhetorical question. Last night, DataBreaches was contacted by the same threat actors who claimed…
Boeing Confirms ‘Cyber Incident’ from LockBit Hacking Group
Rojoef Manuel reports: Boeing has confirmed a “cyber incident” in its parts and distributions business days after a ransomware group published threats against the company. The acknowledgment came after LockBit hackers said on Friday they had tapped “a tremendous amount” of classified data from Boeing that would be leaked online if the company does not…
Town of Iowa in Louisiana victim of ransomware attack: ALPHV publishes a portion of the exfiltrated documents
Marco A. De Felice reports: The ransomware group ALPHV (BlackCat) has published a first part of exfiltrated data from the Town of Iowa in the state of Louisiana. Approximately 250 scanned documents in PDF format have been released, some of which contain visible Social Security numbers (SSNs) of employees, employee salaries, balance sheets, birthdates, addresses,…
Exclusive: Advarra hacked, threat actors threatening to leak data (1)
Advarra describes itself as providing integrated solutions to safeguard trial participants, empowering clinical sites, ensuring compliance, and optimizing research performance for thousands of sponsors, contract research organizations, institutions, academic medical centers, and research consortia that it services. On or about October 25, Advarra was hacked and data was exfiltrated. According to one of the people…