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Millions of hacked toothbrushes used in Swiss cyber attack (1)

Posted on February 7, 2024 by Dissent

Andy Cuthbertson reports: Hackers have infected millions of smart toothbrushes with malware in order to carry out a massive cyber attack against a Swiss company, according to reports. The internet-connected toothbrushes were linked together in something known as a botnet in order to perform a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which overloads websites and servers with…

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Lawsuits Involving GoAnywhere Data Breach Consolidated at One Florida Federal Court

Posted on February 7, 2024 by Dissent

The ransomware gang known as Clop created massive headaches for numerous entities with attacks involving the exploitation of vulnerabilities in file transfer software. Since December 2020, the same gang exploited vulnerabilities in Accellion, Fortra’s GoAnywhere software, and Progress Software’s MOVEit software. Christopher Brown reports a litigation update in cases stemming from the GoAnywhere breach disclosed…

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Two hosting companies in Romania had what appear to be unrelated breaches. Did either one ever issue a public notice? (2)

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Dissent

In April 2023, DataBreaches reported on an alleged incident involving TIC Hosting in Romania. No one from TIC Hosting ever responded to inquiries from this site,  and inquiries to the data protection regulator for the country indicated that TIC Hosting had never reported any data protection incident to them. And that seemed to be the…

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Millions at risk of fraud after massive health data hack in France

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Dissent

Richard Henshell reports: Millions of people are at risk of fraud after a data breach at a company that manages the third-party payments for 84 top-up insurance providers. Viamedis, whose systems the third-party payments for over 20 million people, announced the data breach on February 2. Its clients include Carte Blanche Partenaires, Itelis, Kalixia and…

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Canada’s most prolific hacker is expected to make full restitution

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Dissent

Gary Dimmock reports: It’s not every day that fraud victims get their money back. But Canada’s most prolific hacker, who launched ransomware attacks from his Ottawa home that left some targets in financial ruin, will be making full restitution. Matthew Philbert, 33, pleaded guilty to years of cyber attacks and was recently sentenced to two…

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Was BrightStar Care attacked by two different groups — or was there only one breach?

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Dissent

On January 24, DataBreaches was contacted by a spokesperson for AlphV (“BlackCat”) to see if this site would be interested in reporting on a breach involving BrightStar Care (“BrightStar”). BrightStar had been added to their dark web leak site that day but without any proof of claim. The spokesperson was offering to show DataBreaches data…

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