Guru reports: Yum! Brands, Inc., which runs the restaurants KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill, submitted a notice of security breach to warn of a cybersecurity incident affecting individuals’ personal information that happened in mid-January 2023. Although some data had been taken from the company’s network, the company had previously claimed…
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Hacked: Russian GRU officer wanted by the FBI, leader of the hacker group APT 28
Inform Napalm reports: Ukrainian hacktivist team Cyber Resistance hacked the email of Lieutenant Colonel Sergey Alexandrovich Morgachev, an officer of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army (GRU), leader of the Russian hacker group APT 28, consisting of officers of the 85th Main Special Service Center of the GRU, military unit…
Data breach at Elmbrook School District exposed personal information about former and current employees
Alec Johnson reports: A breach that exposed the names and Social Security numbers of current and former Elmbrook School District employees continued even after the district was aware of the problem. The district learned its system had been compromised on Aug. 23, 2022, according to Elmbrook School Chief Strategy Officer Chris Thompson. Files were removed…
Thai authorities still looking for “9Near” (Updated)
The case of the “9Near” hacker continues to make the news in Thailand. The story began last month when someone offered to sell data on 55 million Thai citizens on BreachForums. Days later, and before there was any evidence of any sale, BreachForums was taken offline after police arrested the forum’s owner, “Pompompurin.” Not to…
Aspire Public Schools reveals 2022 breach; Rochester Public Schools dealing with current attack
Notices of breaches involving two school breaches showed up today in DataBreaches’ searches: Aspire Public Schools in California submitted notifications to at least two state attorneys general. According to its notification, Aspire learned that an unauthorized party gained access to one Aspire email account at various times between February 2022 and August 2022. There was…
Sentiment recovers $870K after negotiations with hacker
Ezra Reguerra reports: Lending protocol Sentiment has managed to recover the stolen funds from the recent hack by offering the hacker a bounty worth $95,000. In an on-chain transaction on the Arbitrum blockchain, Sentiment sent a message to the hacker offering $95,000 if the hacker returned the funds by April 6, urging the hacker to “do the…