Angus Dalton reports: Almost 13 million Australians had personal and health-related data stolen in the MediSecure cyberattack earlier this year, making the mass hack one of the largest ever. The Melbourne-based online prescription service company announced it was the victim of a ransomware data breach in May. A week later, a hacker claiming to possess…
Category: Malware
Pueblo County D70 data breach may have compromised information of former students, staff
James Bartolo reports: Pueblo County School District 70 is addressing a data breach and ransomware attack that may have compromised the personal information of former students, as well as current and former staff. The data breach is believed to have impacted a number of student records saved between 1991 and 2006. Past and present staff…
Shame on Interserver.net for not responding to notification of exposed sensitive and stolen data
Shame on Interserver.net. On July 10, DataBreaches notified hostdepartment.com by email that an IP address was exposing hundreds of data leaks/dumps that had been caught up in hacking or ransomware incidents. When they didn’t respond, I called them the next day. They asked me to resubmit the abuse alert to interserver.net. I promptly did that…
Bassett Furniture shuts down manufacturing facilities after ransomware attack
Jonathan Greig reports: One of the largest furniture companies in the U.S. was forced to shut down its manufacturing facilities following a ransomware attack that began last week. Bassett Furniture Industries said it shut down some of its information technology systems after it discovered unauthorized access on July 10. The hacker “disrupted the Company’s business…
London Borough of Hackney reprimanded following cyber-attack
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: We have issued the London Borough of Hackey with a reprimand following a cyber-attack in 2020 that led to hackers gaining access to and encrypting 440,000 files, affecting at least 280,000 residents and other individuals including staff. In October 2020, hackers attacked the London Borough of Hackney (LBoH) systems –…
Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack
Matthew Connaster reports: CDK Global reportedly paid a $25 million ransom in Bitcoin after its servers were knocked offline by crippling ransomware. Last week, CDK restored services to car dealerships across the US after a two-week outage caused by a “cyber incident” that looked a lot like a ransomware infection. The shutdown of CDK’s software platform caused…