Larry Mayer reports: Even as the Chinese spy balloon floated across the U.S., China-linked hackers were gathering far more information by breaking into computer networks in America and around the world, according to a new report by a leading cybersecurity firm. CrowdStrike says in its annual global threat report that it observed China-linked cyberespionage groups targeting 39 industries on…
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LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken
Dan Goodin reports: Already smarting from a breach that put partially encrypted login data into a threat actor’s hands, LastPass on Monday said that the same attacker hacked an employee’s home computer and obtained a decrypted vault available to only a handful of company developers. Although an initial intrusion into LastPass ended on August 12,…
553 days from discovery to notification? DataBreaches asked Dental Health Management Solutions why.
Dental Health Management Solutions (“DHMS”) in Texas describes their services on LinkedIn as providing comprehensive dental services to both the government, public and private customers since 2003. We specialize in Military Readiness for mobile and portable dentistry nationwide and in the U.S territories. We also provide dental services to Nursing Homes, Assisted Living facilities, and…
In updated disclosure, News Corp says state hackers were on its network for two years
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Mass media and publishing giant News Corporation (News Corp) says that attackers behind a breach disclosed in 2022 first gained access to its systems two years before, in February 2020. This was revealed in data breach notification letters sent to employees affected by the data breach, who had some of their personal and health information…
Jump crypto & Oasis recover over $225 million stolen in Wormhole hack via court authorized counter-exploit
Lacton Muriuki reports: Jump Crypto, a provider of Web3 infrastructure and the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Oasis.app has carried out a “counter exploit” on the Wormhole protocol hacker, recovering $225 million worth of digital assets and moving them to a secure wallet. A flaw in the protocol’s token bridge allowed the Wormhole assault, which took…
Chinese national accused of 2022 mass data leak (updated)
Jono Thomson reports: An investigation into the leak of 23 million items of personal data, including that of the relatives of Vice President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) and Secretary-General of the National Security Council Wellington Koo (顧立雄), has concluded the hacker responsible was a Chinese national. Read more at Taiwan News. According to a machine translation of…