Carly Novell reports: The Republican Party of Texas’s official website appeared to be hacked by Anonymous on Saturday morning. The website was later taken down. After Texas’ restrictive abortion law went into effect on Sept. 1, Anonymous launched Operation Jane, an initiative targeting anyone attempting to enforce the law. The group followed through on its mission by hacking the Texas…
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Talbert House issues press release about June security incident
In July, DataBreaches.net reported on a breach involving Talbert House that had been listed on the “Marketo” leak site, a site where hacked or leaked data is stolen (the site has no connection whatsoever to Adobe’s Marketo). As reported at the time, Talbert House is an agency in Ohio with a network of services focusing…
United Nations’ Computers Breached by Hackers Earlier This Year – Resecurity
William Turton and Kartikay Mehrotra of Bloommberg report: Hackers breached the United Nations’ computer networks earlier this year and made off with a trove of data that could be used to target agencies within the intergovernmental organization. The hackers’ method for gaining access to the UN network appears to be unsophisticated: They likely got in…
Texas Right to Life website exposed job applicants’ resumes
Zack Whittaker reports: Anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life exposed the personal information of hundreds of job applicants after a website bug allowed anyone to access their resumes, which were stored in an unprotected directory on its website. A security researcher told TechCrunch that the group’s main website, built largely in WordPress, was not properly…
US farm loses $9 million in the aftermath of a ransomware attack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A US farm lost a whopping $9 million due to a temporary shutdown of its farming operations following a ransomware attack earlier this year; the FBI said this week. The incident, which took place in January 2021 after hackers gained access to the farm’s internal network through compromised admin credentials, is part…
Boston Public Library discloses cyberattack, system-wide technical outage
Sergui Gatlan reports: The Boston Public Library (BPL) has disclosed today that its network was hit by a cyberattack on Wednesday, leading to a system-wide technical outage. BPL serves almost 4 million visitors per year through its central library, twenty-five neighborhood branches, and millions more online. Read more on BleepingComputer.