Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak was hit by a cyberattack on August 7. Patient care was not disrupted for some things, but the ministry instructed that the center’s outpatient clinics and imaging centers not accept patients and that the public not go to its emergency room until further notice. A week later, the…
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Coffee Meets Bagel Meets Hacker?
Coffee Meets Bagel (CMG) describes itself as a dating site for those looking for quality relationships. Last month, it suffered what was initially described as an “outage.” Now we learn that the “outage” was a cyberattack where the threat actor deleted company data. An FAQ updated on September 6 explains: We determined that the outage…
Ukraine’s CERT Thwarts APT28’s Cyberattack on Critical Energy Infrastructure
Seen on The Hacker News: The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) on Tuesday said it thwarted a cyber attack against an unnamed critical energy infrastructure facility in the country. The intrusion, per the agency, started with a phishing email containing a link to a malicious ZIP archive that activates the infection chain. “Visiting…
Pizza Hut Australia customer data hacked; ShinyHunters claims to have more than 1 million customers’ information
This has not been a great year for Australian citizens whose personal information has been compromised in a number of cyberattacks. Although DataBreaches regrets being the bearer of more bad news for them, more than one million customers of Pizza Hut Australia appear to have had their data acquired by ShinyHunters. According to “Shiny” (@shinycorp),…
Update: Leak site with plastic surgery patients’ data and sexually explicit videos removed
In July, DataBreaches reported a data breach involving the plastic surgery practice of Gary Motykie, M.D. The incident, which appeared to be a hack with an extortion demand, had been reported to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, but an upset patient had also contacted NBC News in Los Angeles to reveal that a leak site…
“It can be confirmed the system of the Department of Defence has not been hacked”- SANDF
Yesterday, DataBreaches reported on SNAtch Team and how they were not a ransomware gang or using what had been referred to as the Snatch locker or ransomware. In that report, DataBreaches included a description provided by their spokesperson about their attack on the South Africa Department of Defense — an attack that SANDF initially dismissed…