Cameron Poitras reports: A local mattress and furniture supply store was forced to pay a hacker who shut down its servers, effectively putting a halt to services and sales there. Best Sleep Centre was hit by the hacker earlier this month with ransomware, asking for 0.6 of a bitcoin or about $6,000 Canadian. Read more…
Category: Malware
Hundreds of Hotels Affected by Data Breach at Hotel Booking Software Provider
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal details and payment card data of guests from hundreds of hotels, if not more, have been stolen this month by an unknown attacker, Bleeping Computer has learned. The data was taken from FastBooking, a Paris-based company that sells hotel booking software to more than 4,000 hotels in 100 countries —as…
OH: Hackers try to hold Jefferson computers at ransom
Justin Dennis reports: Village officials were alarmed, but ultimately unscathed, after a ransomware virus found its way onto a village computer late last month. The infamous strain of malicious software threatens to wipe out affected computers unless victims pay the hackers a ransom before a deadline. The same ransomware attack struck Jefferson village and at…
RISE Wisconsin Notifies Plan Participants of Data Security Incident
MADISON, WI – June 7, 2018 – RISE Wisconsin (“RISE”) (formerly Community Partnerships and Center for Families) has become aware of a data security incident that may have involved the limited protected health information of our participants. Although at this time there is no evidence of any attempted or actual misuse of anyone’s information as…
UK: Bible Society fined £100,000 by ICO after security failings put 417,000 supporters’ personal data at risk
The British and Foreign Bible Society, based in Swindon, has been fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office, after their computer network was compromised as the result of a dharma variant ransomware attack in 2016. Between November and December 2016, the intruders used a brute force attack and exploited remote access that had been secured…
Atlanta officials reveal worsening effects of cyber attack
Reuter reports that the March 22 ransomware attack on Atlanta was even worse than they had let on. More than a third of the 424 software programs used by the city have been thrown offline or partially disabled in the incident, Atlanta Information Management head Daphne Rackley said. Nearly 30 percent of the affected applications…