Not surprisingly, extremists appear to have made some false claims about a hack and data dump involving the far-right platform known as Gab. Rather than repeat their claims — claims that include blatantly bigoted language — DataBreaches.net provides the statement by public interest group DDOSecrets.com: Distributed Denial of Secrets provided a pre-release copy of the…
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Some San Diegans’ personal information provided to Jewish Family Service exposed online
Morgan Cook reports: Jewish Family Service of San Diego, a prominent nonprofit aid organization, exposed thousands of messages, some with identifying information from people seeking help with everything from paying rent to escaping abusive relationships. The social-services charity, which helps people in crisis regardless of their faith, learned of the data breach Monday night, after…
Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas Notice of Security Incident
This morning’s reminder that it’s not just HIPAA covered entities or business associates that may be exposing your medical information to a breach. Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas (“VOACC”) announced today a phishing email incident that involved a small number of email accounts in its computer environment. The phishing email incident resulted in unauthorized access to…
MA: Home for the Little Wanderers starts notifying people while still investigating breach
Here we go… an entity that isn’t waiting until its investigation is totally complete to begin notifying. I love it! BRIGHTON, Mass., Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Home for the Little Wanderers (“The Home”) is providing notice of a recent data security event. On or about December 28, 2020, The Home became aware of usual activity within an…
Update: Dutch research funding agency, paralyzed by ransomware attack, refuses to pay up
Martin Enserink reports: Hackers published a batch of internal documents from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) on the dark web yesterday, after the agency refused to pay up in a ransomware attack. The attack, which began on 8 February, has completely knocked out the agency’s grant application and review process and cut off…
Cleveland – Ohio, CMHA: Doppel Paymer ransomware publishes first stolen data
Marco De Felice (@amvinfe) reports: On February 10, the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority was one of the latest victims of a cyber attack by Doppel Paymer. The group of cybercriminals wasted no time and yesterday uploaded the first exfiltrated documents to their site in the Tor network. According to a statement made by a spokesperson for CMHA, the…