Sergiu Gatlan reports: Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link confirmed a data breach linked to information stolen from its network and put up for sale on BreachForums earlier this month. The attacker claims to have stolen source code for D-Link’s D-View network management software, along with millions of entries containing personal information of customers and employees, including…
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Colonial Pipeline was hacked. No, wait, Accenture was hacked. No, wait….. untangling claims. (2)
By, now, there’s been a lot of buzz by some claims made by RansomedVC on their leak site and on their Telegram channel. In their post this afternoon, RansomedVC claimed that (1) Rob Lee of Dragos somehow cheated someone called “fooble,” and as a result, (2) RansomedVC was going to leak files that Lee had…
Clorox Expects Double-Digit Sales Drop Following Cyberattack
Michael Novinson reports: Household cleaning product giant Clorox said Wednesday that an August cyberattack had taken a big swipe out of the bleach maker’s sales and profits in the quarter that ended Sept. 30. The Oakland, California-based manufacturer maker expects organic sales to drop between 21% and 26% due to widespread disruption, order processing delays…
Data breach at MGM Resorts expected to cost casino giant $100 million
Wyatte Grantham-Philips reports: The data breach last month that MGM Resorts is calling a cyberattack is expected to cost the casino giant more than $100 million, the Las Vegas-based company said. The incident, which was detected on Sept. 10, led to MGM shutting down some casino and hotel computer systems at properties across the U.S. in efforts…
D.C. Board of Elections voter registration data up for sale on dark web (1)
A new listing on ransomedvc claims, “We have successfully breached the District of Columbia Board Of Elections and have gotten more than 600k lines of USA Voters.” The listing links to a sample consisting of one registered voter’s data. That listing included a number of fields with, but not limited to, VoterID, registration date, voter’s…
Parkers Chapel School District network hacked; FBI investigating
Caitlan Butler reports: The Parkers Chapel School District has been hacked, and federal law enforcement agencies, in partnership with the State of Arkansas, are currently investigating the matter. John Gross, PCSD superintendent, said the district learned about the hack last Thursday, Sept. 29. “There’s rumors they’ve been in there for months, but I don’t know…